Support for asus eee pc's, especially the new ones? (Page 1 of 2)

ootb with wireless too? that's great! Mine originally came with Windows XP Home, the 1005HA, same as yours. Mine only came with 1 GB of RAM, though. did you upgrade or was yours 2 GB ootb?

Last edited by pythonscript (2010-06-02 19:45:48)

I definitely want to look into a memory upgrade, then. That sounds like a right good deal, especially since I travel a lot and the netbook is great for an aeroplane.

Hi Pythonscript, CrunchBang has always been one of the premier netbook distros (in my opinion) due to its efficient interface and lightweight system requirements. The recent shift to a Debian base distro means you can take advantage of the excellent existing Debian documentation on the web, for example: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC

My 2 cents, you can take 'em or leave 'em, is that part of owning a netbook is understanding your hardware and the required drivers. For example, I know that my Dell Mini 9 requires something called the "Broadcom STA Driver" that sounds a little scary. However, once I learned that Broadcom makes their native Linux driver available on their website, and in fact many Linux distros (including Debian) have packages to streamline its installation, I realized I could make any distro work on my netbook in 5 minutes. So it was no longer a question of "which linux distro is best for my netbook?" but "which linux distro is best for ME?" which was a liberating feeling. (And of course the answer for my Dell was CrunchBang, though I must confess my Asus EEE is dual booting XP and Fedora, don't tell the #! police.)

Last edited by snowpine (2010-06-02 22:33:07)

I personally have found Ubuntu Netbook Edition to be slower than "regular" Ubuntu and much slower than CrunchBang. Disclaimer: I have not tested UNE 10.04; maybe the new version flies.

Thanks for the answers.
Looks like I will have to compare the kernels to see if I'm losing out on something
I will have to meditate a bit on the change I am using UNE 10.04 currently it boots in 20 seconds +5 seconds to load the panel (and I guess other stuff) how does Crunchbang fare in that area?
Also is Maximus( it's function is to... maximize almost every opened application )  available in #! or something similar?

Yes it is in the Jaunty repos

Its probably the same. iirc Ubuntu's LTS releases is based on Debian testing packages.

I just check and maximus is available in the Squeeze/Testing repos too, so yes you can install it on Statler.

When I installed Statler on my eeepc 1005HA I was astonished to see that both wired and wireless networking worked out of the box.  It was even easier than #! 9.04, which admittedly required some tweaks - all of which were very well-documented.  I'm a bit of a Distro Hopper, but I can't think of a better choice for my Netbook.

I'd suggest trying /dev/sdb as your USB/cdrom path. That worked for me, but only after using the dd command to setup the USB, otherwise no combination of /dev/sdx would work.

I was also stuck on that step, for several hours, until I worked it out.

Instructions are here:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler … stallation

It's two steps, the first will tell you the path of your USB. I'm using an eee 1000h, and mine was sdb. But use the command to double check.

The second part uses the dd command to put the bootable iso onto your USB. Replace the /path/to/iso/ with the directory your iso is stored, and replace sdX with your device (from the first step).

I suppose it's a dangerous command if you put in /dev/sda, and it turns out your harddisk is sda, you wipe your harddrive(?). Hence, use the first step to check the correct path of your USB device. This was the first time I've had to use the dd command for anything, but it seemed to work ok if you follow the instructions.

At the bottom of the instruction page, beneath the Windows stuff, it  tells you what to do once you get to the step where it asks for your cdrom.

It complains about some file missing when I try to boot from it so it refuses to boot
I'm going to retry it with unetbootin.

Edit: Another question: how could I reset my pendrive so I can wipe it clean because currently it says that it's a read only drive and I can't change it

Edit: Yay! I managed to wipe my pendrive though for a moment I thought I nuked it to oblivion

Last edited by ThePancakeWhichNeverEnds (2010-06-10 16:49:17)