Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. I recently used liveusb creator to download and install Fedora 9-KDE on an eee PC 4G. The live boot worked fine and the machine networked instantly with a DHCP connection via LAN cable. I installed from the live desktop, using the default partition scheme, and everything was fine upon reboot. I then instrall kmod-madwifi package, and after another reboot, wireless was up and running. I travel a lot, and I have to say that my experience with the capabilities and convenience of the eee PC are very different from yours. I am able to do a lot of work remotely, but I even have the Gimp installed on the thing.
Peter
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Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology
California Academy of Sciences
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From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Beartooth
Sent: Sun 8/17/2008 7:14 AM
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: F7 on EeePC : how to connect??
I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back
says ASUS 701 -- model number??
After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and
Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all,
I soon found that for anyone with large trifocal fingers and arthritic
eyeballs, about its only worthwhile use would be sitting in waiting
rooms.
So I fitted it and its peripheral paraphernalia into a suitable
receptacle, and kept that handy. But it happened that I had no occasion
to use it for several weeks.
When I did, the battery had gone dead, just sitting there.
Once I got it usable at all again, two of the three boots were
unusable, and the other was my least favorite.
Yesterday I installed Fedora 7, from a live CD in an external USB
drive -- twice. After the second install, which wouldn't boot, I tried
booting it with the puppy stick inserted -- and it booted, but to Fedora.
But it can't seem to find the ethernet cable which is plugged right
into it. (Come to think of it, anaconda never asked me its usual routine
questions about connecting.)
How do I get the fool thing to connect??
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Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
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