[indiana-discuss] OS 2008.05 on EeePC 900

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Just doing the same thing at the moment...

Which one of the ath drivers did you use?

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/ath-0.7.3-pkg.tar.gz
or
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/downloads/ath-x86-ar5007eg-pkg.tar.gz

Gilles

Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Today I got some spare time and have OS 2008.05 installed on my EeePC
> 900. Several key points:
>
> (1) keyboard did not work originally, but after add the "-v" option to
> the grub menu (the kernel line, not the other lines) it worked.
>
> (2) Wireless did not work originally, but after installing the driver
> from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ it worked.
>
> (3) Wired NIC is not working yet.
>
> (4) Audio is not working yet.
>
> (5) Projector works! When I connect a SONY projector to the EeePC, it
> just worked. The laptop side got a trim-off screen (the lower part was
> cut off), but the projector side got 1024x768! So, I can do
> presentations with the cute machine now.
>
> (6) Got OpenOffice 2.4 working via IPS. The slide show is actually very
> nice.
>
> (7) The SD slot works. I put a 16-GB SD card into the slot, then a "NO
> NAME" drive appeared on the desktop. Now I have a base system of 15 G,
> and a storage of another 16 G of storage. So, this is actually a very
> nice system to carry around.
>
> I did not have enough time to test its battery life with OS 2008.05.
> Will do that when I have the opportunity.
>
>
>   

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