Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[maxim wexler]

> > ifconfig wlan0 up
> > 
> > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan.
> > 
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name"
> > 
> > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1
> > 
> 
> dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this.
> 

It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet.

There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum but it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or?

Thanks,

rgrds Maxim


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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[Chema Alonso]

maxim wexler escribió:
>>> ifconfig wlan0 up
>>>
>>> iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan.
>>>
>>> iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name"
>>>
>>> iwconfig wlan0 chan 1
>>>
>> dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this.
>>
> 
> It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet.
> 
> There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum but it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> rgrds Maxim
> 
> 
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This wiki helped me a lot:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701

Hope it helps!

Cheers!

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[James Ausmus]

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> > > ifconfig wlan0 up
> > >
> > > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan.
> > >
> > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name"
> > >
> > > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1
> > >
> >
> > dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this.
> >
>
> It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is strictly
> bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet.
>
> There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum but
> it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or?
>


Hi Maixm-

I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my wife's
eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with kernel
2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast
compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, Firefox, Openoffice,
NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all in a 2.7GB disk footprint, and
without doing any compiling on the eeePC itself (I used my Core2Duo ~amd64
Gentoo box to do all the heavy lifting, then made a bootable 4GB SD card
with the resulting FS - will move over to internal 4GB SSD once I've put the
final touches on it). I have full eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue
I've found with the rfkill (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW (PHY)
refuses to power back up once it's turned off. I believe it was working in
the original Xandros, so I'll probably be doing some kernel hacking to get
it working). If you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write
up how I went about doing it and post it - interested?

-James

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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[Matt Harrison]

James Ausmus wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com 
> <mailto:blissfix@yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>      > > ifconfig wlan0 up
>      > >
>      > > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan.
>      > >
>      > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name"
>      > >
>      > > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1
>      > >
>      >
>      > dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this.
>      >
> 
>     It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is
>     strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet.
> 
>     There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum
>     but it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Maixm-
> 
> I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my 
> wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with 
> kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* 
> smooth and fast compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, 
> Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all in a 2.7GB 
> disk footprint, and without doing any compiling on the eeePC itself (I 
> used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to do all the heavy lifting, then 
> made a bootable 4GB SD card with the resulting FS - will move over to 
> internal 4GB SSD once I've put the final touches on it). I have full 
> eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found with the rfkill 
> (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW (PHY) refuses to power back 
> up once it's turned off. I believe it was working in the original 
> Xandros, so I'll probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it 
> working). If you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write 
> up how I went about doing it and post it - interested?
> 
> -James
> 
> 

I for one would be interested in a writeup like this. I've been getting 
gentoo onto my eee, and its going well. I'm just missing the finer 
details like hotkeys, suspend on lid closing and tweaking the intel drivers.

Thanks

~Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 15 May 2009 23:07:56 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote:

> I for one would be interested in a writeup like this. I've been getting 
> gentoo onto my eee, and its going well. I'm just missing the finer 
> details like hotkeys, suspend on lid closing and tweaking the intel
> drivers.

For suspend, use the ACPI config I posted yesterday, but bind it to the
lid event instead of the sleep key.


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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[maxim wexler]

--- On Fri, 5/15/09, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually)
> gotten my wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I
> have a full install with kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel
> drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* smooth and fast
> compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet,
> Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all
> in a 2.7GB disk footprint, and without doing any compiling
> on the eeePC itself (I used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to
> do all the heavy lifting, then made a bootable 4GB SD card
> with the resulting FS - will move over to internal 4GB SSD
> once I've put the final touches on it). I have full
> eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found
> with the rfkill (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW
> (PHY) refuses to power back up once it's turned off. I
> believe it was working in the original Xandros, so I'll
> probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it working). If
> you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write
> up how I went about doing it and post it - interested?
> 
> 
> -James

Yes, very much so. I understand there are issues with too many read/write cycles on the SSHD. Up to now I've re-jiggered the kernel at least a dozen times. I guess I should have put the OS on a card first *then* onto the hard-drive once everything was in order. 

Have you been here?

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=2613&p=1

...
### EEEPC ####
/dev/sda1         /        ext3        defaults,noatime  1 2
# By mounting the tmp directories in a tmpfs
# the accesses to the SSD will be decreased.
# But you will lose all the data in the tmp directories if the PC shuts down.
tmpfs                /tmp                tmpfs        defaults      0 0
tmpfs                /var/tmp            tmpfs        defaults      0 0
tmpfs                /var/lock            tmpfs        defaults      0 0
# If you do not use postfix as a real MTA then you can also add this line:
#tmpfs              /var/spool/postfix    tmpfs        defaults      0 0
tmpfs                /var/log            tmpfs        defaults,size=64m    0 0
tmpfs                /var/run            tmpfs        defaults,size=8m    0 0
shm                    /dev/shm            tmpfs        nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0
/gentoo/portage.squashfs /gentoo/portage    auto    loop,ro 0 0
...

Is this overkill? Or the way to go? Believe this was for a 701.

Maxim



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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:28:02 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:

> Yes, very much so. I understand there are issues with too many
> read/write cycles on the SSHD.

An SSD is not the same as a USB stick. They have wear levelling to avoid
this problem.

> Up to now I've re-jiggered the kernel at
> least a dozen times. I guess I should have put the OS on a card first
> *then* onto the hard-drive once everything was in order. 

I've been running mine for over a year, using ~x86 so updates are
frequent and no sign of any problems, and stll almost a year's warranty
left :)

I do have PORTAGE_TMPDIR on an SSDHCcard, but that's more for space
reasons.


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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[maxim wexler]

> I've been running mine for over a year, using ~x86 so

using ~x86? As a USE flag, in package.keywords, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS...?

mw


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Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED!

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Sat, 16 May 2009 09:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > I've been running mine for over a year, using ~x86 so
> 
> using ~x86? As a USE flag, in package.keywords, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS...?

Must be ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for emerge since it's none too practical to set
it for every package in .keywords or mix ~ and stable builds much.

In fact, it can probably be considered some sort of a gentoo-specific
slang :)

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