Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-17 Thread Jim
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 12.10.2008 21:26, Jim wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] The madwifi drivers at Livna does not work as they should for the 2.6.26 kernels. Did you (or somebody else) file a bug so this can be fixed? Then we

please report bugs to get them fixed instead of telling each and everybody (or documentating) how work around them (was: Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?)

2008-10-17 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 17.10.2008 16:35, Jim wrote: Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: On 12.10.2008 21:26, Jim wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] The madwifi drivers at Livna does not work as they should for the 2.6.26 kernels. Did you (or somebody else) file a bug

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:15:49 -0400, Jim wrote: I have a eeePC 702 and it works perfect on FC10 the kernel-2.6.27, I don't know what WiFi the 1000 uses but the eeePC 700 series runs the Atheros AR5007EG wireless, and it won't work in the 2.6.26 kernels FC 8 - 9 . The rpm from Livna will

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Jim
Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:15:49 -0400, Jim wrote: I have a eeePC 702 and it works perfect on FC10 the kernel-2.6.27, I don't know what WiFi the 1000 uses but the eeePC 700 series runs the Atheros AR5007EG wireless, and it won't work in the 2.6.26 kernels FC 8 - 9 . The rpm

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Beartooth
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:23:32 -0400, Jim wrote: [...] So which version of F10 Beta do I want to use? i386, or something else?? I installed FC-10 Beta i386 or i686 on my eeePC 702, and all hardware works great. Downloading now; many thanks! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD,

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Paul W. Frields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:31 +, Beartooth wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:23:32 -0400, Jim wrote: I installed FC-10 Beta i386 or i686 on my eeePC 702, and all hardware works great. Just to toot the horns of some

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-16 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 12.10.2008 21:26, Jim wrote: Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] The madwifi drivers at Livna does not work as they should for the 2.6.26 kernels. Did you (or somebody else) file a bug so this can be fixed? Then we can save a lot of users

Re: [OT] EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 20:03 -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: A note: read somewhere that windows installing requires a full day. Didn't and wouldn't test. Not on an EeePC, but the last time I did the windows update after a lapse of updating, I watched the whole of the Dr Zhivago movie

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: What are you planning to use the eee for? I use laptops mostly to connect by WiFi to a server desktop, which holds my email and runs a web server. I also keep most files on another computer, which I access by NFS. I haven't found any mention of NFS or even ssh

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
g wrote: please add or subtract a 'dash', *-* to your replies. using 2 dashes causes your reply to 'gray out', which makes it a little difficult to read. Actually it's two hyphens followed by one blank which denoted the signature. I assumed he hit REPLY and then started typing just above his

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Am Sonntag, den 12.10.2008, 14:24 +0100 schrieb Timothy Murphy: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What are you planning to use

Re: [OT] EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Am Montag, den 13.10.2008, 13:09 +0100 schrieb Timothy Murphy: Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: What are you planning to use the eee for? I use laptops mostly to connect by WiFi to a server desktop, which holds my email and runs a web server. I also keep most files on another computer, which

Re: [OT] EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: I haven't found any mention of NFS or even ssh on the EeePC so far, but I guess they must be there somewhere. Also I'd like to have an xterm or konsole window, but I don't see that either. Hmm. I have the impression you didn't read enough before asking.

Re: [OT] EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-13 Thread Mogens Kjaer
Timothy Murphy wrote: ... Perhaps there should be a warning somewhere, If you are a Linux user, do not read the Software Users Manual. Instead type Ctrl-Alt-T, and you will be in familiar territory. In fact the OS as the user sees it is more Windows than Windows. At least in Windows there is an

EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I have any problems with

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Jim
Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What actually are the advantages of Fedora in this case? Also, will I

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. I nearly lost my

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Jim
Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. I

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, will I have any problems with WiFi, which works very well in the current system? The horrid WIFI on the stock eepc is the reason I'd consider installing Fedora-9 here. As far as I can tell, Asus doesn't take bug reports and doesn't seem to have

RE: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Roopnarine, Peter
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Timothy Murphy Sent: Sun 10/12/2008 6:24 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: EeePC - to Fedora or not? I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roopnarine, Peter wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Timothy Murphy Sent: Sun 10/12/2008 6:24 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: EeePC - to Fedora or not? please add or subtract a 'dash', *-* to your

Re: EeePC - to Fedora or not?

2008-10-12 Thread Slim Joe
2008/10/13, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently acquired an Asus EeePC-1000 (the Linux version with a 40GB SSD). I don't really like the Linux system running on the machine, and am thinking about installing Fedora instead or in addition. What actually are the advantages

To All EEEpc and Fedora Users, getting Wlan0 and Webcam working

2008-09-08 Thread Jim
FC9 , 2.6.27-0.312.rc5.git7.fc10 . If you have eeePC 700 series that uses the wireless ar5007EG Atheros chipset, in Fedora Rawhide repo for FC10 they have the kernel- 2.6.27-0.312.rc5.git7.fc10 that will run the Wireless card and Webcam. I used Yumex to install the kernel-