[MLUG] netbooks / laptops

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

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 outdated 2.6.26 kernel.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.

Well, the Debian eee wiki pages now list the 1000HE, and have a web page on it.
It seems to be a lot of configuratin/hardware description.  Some of their
charts seem to suggest they're aware of the wifi chip the 1000HE use, and
think they have the right drivers.

But if you say it doesn't work, maybe you should tell them with a bug report
or a question.

Or have you (or they) figured out what Ubuntu is doing right and Debian
is doing wrong in the meantime?

-- hendrik