Arch on Asus EEE 901

steve___ · 2008-10-12 15:38:10

Exitium, this doesn't sound like a problem specific to the 901. Have you tried to make a connection using iwconfig and ifconfig? Have you read though the wiki located here, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless?

-steve

Exitium · 2008-10-12 16:25:48

steve___ wrote:

Exitium, this doesn't sound like a problem specific to the 901. Have you tried to make a connection using iwconfig and ifconfig? Have you read though the wiki located here, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless?
-steve

Yes I have. Everything seems to be OK, but it cannot get IP. I have no idea what would be the problem...

Connecting to my home's and friend's WiFi network works with other devices such as iPhone.

elliott · 2008-10-12 16:33:04

Does anyone else have asusosd causing constant ~50% CPU usage.

EDIT: Well, it isn't constant, it works fine for a while, but eventually gets to ~50% and stays there.

Last edited by elliott (2008-10-12 16:39:47)

slappinjohn · 2008-10-12 16:34:07

Exitium wrote:

Yes I have. Everything seems to be OK, but it cannot get IP. I have no idea what would be the problem...
Connecting to my home's and friend's WiFi network works with other devices such as iPhone.

Is it an encrypted Wlan? In this case you have to set the iwpriv settings mentioned earlier in this thread.

chori wrote:

$ sudo ifconfig ra0 up
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WEPAUTO
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set SSID=my_essid
$ sudo iwconfig ra0 key s:my passphrase

Last edited by slappinjohn (2008-10-12 16:35:46)

chori · 2008-10-13 01:00:23

elliott wrote:

Does anyone else have asusosd causing constant ~50% CPU usage.
EDIT: Well, it isn't constant, it works fine for a while, but eventually gets to ~50% and stays there.

Interesting. I haven't noticed, but I have to say, I haven't looked, either. I'm mucking about in the asusosd source code right now, there are a few things that I didn't like about it that I changed. I'll see if I track down what's causing it to take so much CPU time (some sort of blocking wait, maybe?)

Do you see this using top/htop?

EDIT: I just looked at my process table and CPU loads, and everything looks normal. Asusosd is towards the bottom of the list in CPU consumption. I'll keep an eye on it. Does it take a while for Asusosd to start hogging the CPU on your machine?

Last edited by chori (2008-10-13 01:06:53)

chori · 2008-10-13 01:14:57

saz wrote:

can somebody post a fully working eee.conf after this last update? just for me to have a point of reference, because I think my is screwed up...

You can find the one distributed with acpi-eee901 in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/acpi-eee901-11-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz. Just gunzip-untar the package is some temporary spot (like /var/tmp).

elliott · 2008-10-13 01:23:04

chori wrote:

Do you see this using top/htop?

I saw it in xfce4-taskmanager, had it up because i just mapped it to fn+f6, I wasn't really having any problems.

chori wrote:

EDIT: I just looked at my process table and CPU loads, and everything looks normal. Asusosd is towards the bottom of the list in CPU consumption. I'll keep an eye on it. Does it take a while for Asusosd to start hogging the CPU on your machine?

At that point, before I restarted asusosd, the system had been running for at least 48 hours. I just noticed it when I made that post, after I restarted it, it was fine and still is. I can't be sure when it started doing that, I didn't notice any slowness or anything.

Robertek · 2008-10-13 05:40:21

elliott wrote:

chori wrote:
Do you see this using top/htop?
I saw it in xfce4-taskmanager, had it up because i just mapped it to fn+f6, I wasn't really having any problems.
chori wrote:
EDIT: I just looked at my process table and CPU loads, and everything looks normal. Asusosd is towards the bottom of the list in CPU consumption. I'll keep an eye on it. Does it take a while for Asusosd to start hogging the CPU on your machine?
At that point, before I restarted asusosd, the system had been running for at least 48 hours. I just noticed it when I made that post, after I restarted it, it was fine and still is. I can't be sure when it started doing that, I didn't notice any slowness or anything.

have you restarted acpid?? if so, it is common bug in asusosd.

elliott · 2008-10-13 07:07:16

Robertek wrote:

have you restarted acpid?? if so, it is common bug in asusosd.

I'm pretty sure I did when I was playing around with the scripts. Good to know that it isn't random.

UnlinK · 2008-10-13 09:17:38

Robertek wrote:

inf wrote:
@Robertek
Can you add these to the git kernel:
* USB Serial Converter support (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL)
* USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems (CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_OPTION)
and also support for PPP(async serial ports) and also the option module would be nice to have so I could use my Huawei E169 with Arch
Will be included in next release

I'm using latest zen-eee901-2.6.26-9-i686.pkg.tar.gz.. are the changes already included?

Thanks

Exitium · 2008-10-13 09:32:21

slappinjohn wrote:

Exitium wrote:
Yes I have. Everything seems to be OK, but it cannot get IP. I have no idea what would be the problem...
Connecting to my home's and friend's WiFi network works with other devices such as iPhone.
Is it an encrypted Wlan? In this case you have to set the iwpriv settings mentioned earlier in this thread.
chori wrote:
$ sudo ifconfig ra0 up
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WEPAUTO
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set SSID=my_essid
$ sudo iwconfig ra0 key s:my passphrase

Nope, it's not encrypted.

Last edited by Exitium (2008-10-13 09:33:12)

ChorSuKong · 2008-10-13 11:07:26

Hello, i'm installing for the 1st time arch on my eee901. Having the base system installed (kernel-eee901) and repositories edgy, zen-eee, core, extra,... pacman can't find the alsa things... what am i doing wrong?

thx

Exitium · 2008-10-13 11:24:16

Exitium wrote:

slappinjohn wrote:
Exitium wrote:
Yes I have. Everything seems to be OK, but it cannot get IP. I have no idea what would be the problem...
Connecting to my home's and friend's WiFi network works with other devices such as iPhone.
Is it an encrypted Wlan? In this case you have to set the iwpriv settings mentioned earlier in this thread.
chori wrote:
$ sudo ifconfig ra0 up
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WEPAUTO
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
$ sudo iwpriv ra0 set SSID=my_essid
$ sudo iwconfig ra0 key s:my passphrase
Nope, it's not encrypted.

Mm.. When I try sudo dhcpcd ra0 it says...

err, ra0: timed out
warn, ra0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.122.105

Exitium · 2008-10-13 12:07:40

Yay! Problem solved!

I installed eee-kernel901 and then it started to work! With zen-kernel it didn't work.

slappinjohn · 2008-10-13 12:57:44

Exitium wrote:

Mm.. When I try sudo dhcpcd ra0 it says...
err, ra0: timed out
warn, ra0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.122.105

I got the same error from time to time, but i wrote a script to connect to a wep-encrypted wlan and it do work for me:

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig ra0 up
dhcpd ra0 &
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WEPAUTO
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=my_essid
iwconfig ra0 key s:my passphrase

I'm using the zen-eee-kernel-git. A week ago I replaced the Ralinkcard with an Intel one to manage wireless connection via exalt, but it did work with the Ralink wifi card!

chori · 2008-10-13 13:00:27

slappinjohn wrote:

A week ago I replaced the Ralinkcard with an Intel one to manage wireless connection via exalt, but it did work with the Ralink wifi card!

How do you like the Intel card, as compared to the Ralink wifi card? I have an Intel card sitting in my desk drawer, waiting to be installed.

slappinjohn · 2008-10-13 13:27:46

So my exalt module for enlightenment doesn't work properly at the moment, I can't tell you if it's working. In terminal I just have to type iwconfig wlan0 essid ... key s:.... and it's working. no iwpriv or stuff! Connection-quality is nearly the same and i don't use DRaft-n so it's ok.

If i's working with wicd I can't tell you because wicd doesn't start at all on my machine (Don't know why, but even don't care ;-) )

qdiesel · 2008-10-13 14:13:18

have anyone got hibernation working with zeneee kernel?

acid2 · 2008-10-13 14:46:32

Hey all, firstly - thanks for all the hard work Im having a problem though, I cant get wireless to show up for the life of me...

Here are some details: Im running zen-eee902 from the repo given earlier. When I do "ifconfig" i see lo and eth0, but not ra0 - which sounds like its the wireless device. Any ideas why this would be? I have a brand new eee, purchased only a few days ago, but can't find anyone else who's had this issue. I've also built from source and used prebuilt packahes - both gave the same result.

chori · 2008-10-13 15:01:13

acid2 wrote:

Hey all, firstly - thanks for all the hard work Im having a problem though, I cant get wireless to show up for the life of me...
Here are some details: Im running zen-eee902 from the repo given earlier. When I do "ifconfig" i see lo and eth0, but not ra0 - which sounds like its the wireless device. Any ideas why this would be? I have a brand new eee, purchased only a few days ago, but can't find anyone else who's had this issue. I've also built from source and used prebuilt packahes - both gave the same result.

Is wireless enabled in your BIOS?

acid2 · 2008-10-13 15:50:37

chori wrote:

acid2 wrote:
Hey all, firstly - thanks for all the hard work Im having a problem though, I cant get wireless to show up for the life of me...
Here are some details: Im running zen-eee902 from the repo given earlier. When I do "ifconfig" i see lo and eth0, but not ra0 - which sounds like its the wireless device. Any ideas why this would be? I have a brand new eee, purchased only a few days ago, but can't find anyone else who's had this issue. I've also built from source and used prebuilt packahes - both gave the same result.
Is wireless enabled in your BIOS?

Well dont I feel silly

Thanks!

saz · 2008-10-13 21:29:54

how can I mute that beep everytime I suspend my eee?

saz · 2008-10-13 22:21:55

well I modprobe'd the eee module, and added it to rc.conf

this is what i get

$ cat /proc/eee/fsb
105 50 1

is it safe to:

 echo 100 50 0 > /proc/eee/fsb

??

I mean, has someone been using this low voltage without problems?

chori · 2008-10-13 22:28:43

saz wrote:

well I modprobe'd the eee module, and added it to rc.conf
this is what i get
$ cat /proc/eee/fsb
105 50 1
is it safe to:
 echo 100 50 0 > /proc/eee/fsb
??

I mean, has someone been using this low voltage without problems?

Yes, I have. I regularly run mine at 110 50 0.

Where I *have* had problems is low speeds at normal voltage: occasionally, when I run at 75 50 1, after a few minutes my system flakes out, and I have to do a hard shutdown. Not nice. I don't do that anymore. Now, if I set the FSB speed anywhere below 85, I also set the low voltage flag.

Robertek · 2008-10-14 11:21:00

== UPDATE NOTIFY ==

So I have two updates for you.

1) acpi-eee901

*) thanks to chori, there is impressive fsb changing script (you need to update your eee.conf to setup/enable fsb change)
*) init script for setting fsb to the latest value on boot
*) some fixes in buttons

TODO: fix the external VGA changing
add user defined action on critical battery level

2) zen-eee901-1G-git

*) updated to 2.6.27-zen1
*) minor config fixes
*) acpi-cpufreq is now module not build-in, so add to rc.conf if you want speedstep

zen-eee901-git will continue

I will also start merging git and stable kernel and updating its config to be compatible with stock arch config.

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