[Chester LUG] eeepc woes again

Paul Williams wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Jul 17 17:13:30 UTC 2008


funny thing is that they both work under xp and the network connections seems to just have a modem option.

> From: r.downing at dl.ac.uk
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] eeepc woes again
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:59:43 +0100
> 
> On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:15:31 Paul Williams wrote:
> > Hi Guys, got feisty installed to the SD card of my eeepc (and XP on the
> > ssd).
> >
> > Only issue is that I have no ethernet or wifi, so I can't tweek it much.
> >
> > any help?
> >
> > I want to fix the problem without installing another distro - had enough
> > trouble getting one on in the first place.
> >
> Hmm interesting that ethernet doesn't work. That is meant to work perfectly 
> well. The wireless is easily fixed by recompiling drivers with a small patch 
> applied. There is even an automated script that will customise ubuntu for 
> eeepcs. These of course require that you have some way of getting said patch 
> or script onto the machine.......
> 
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