[MLUG] EEE 1000HE and Debian (was: netbooks / laptops

[David Pelletier]

Bluetooth loaded alright, the device was created at boot and everything
looked fine, but I have no bluetooth device to test it.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM, <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:47:56AM -0400, David Pelletier wrote:
> > Debian installed just fine on the 1000HE with the Debian EEE installer.
> > Grub2 set the wrong partition number for the Windows XP partition and the
> > recovery partition, but that was easily fixed (0,+1 on each).
> >
> > Everything seems to work fine with lenny except the wireless and
> bluetooth
> > adapters. They need kernel 2.6.27 or more recent. Lenny ships with an old
> > outdated 2.6.26 kernel. I checked sqeeze/testing, still 2.6.26... so I
> > pulled 2.6.28 out of unstable and while the ath9k module loads, it
> doesn't
> > work with the wireless adapter.
> >
> > I have read that eeebuntu supports it without a problem I'm gonna install
> it
> > and see how they got it to work, and try to do the same in debian later.
> >
> > For now, Debien EEE doesn't fully support the 1000HE.
>
> Now that's useful information!  wifi is critical to me, bluetooth not.
> Still, did the bluetooth work with the 2.6.28 kernel?  Or didn't you get
> to test that yet?
>
> -- hendrik
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