Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:19:15 I wrote:

> Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!):
>
> 1.	On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I
> can ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not
> responsive to me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X
> -configure, and I've tried without. More investigation to do here.

This one was easy, though I didn't find the answer straight away - it seems 
I'd omitted to add hald and dbus to the default run-level.

> 2.	The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not
> quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got
> this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this
> netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise.

No problem here either.

If anyone wants to know what I did to get the wlan working they've only to 
ask.

-- 
Rgds
Peter