[indiana-discuss] OS 2008.05 on EeePC 900

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Hi Gilles,

I am using this one:

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

Best regards,

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Gilles Gravier 写道:
> 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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