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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com on behalf of Beartooth<BR>
Sent: Sun 8/17/2008 7:14 AM<BR>
To: fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>
Subject: F7 on EeePC : how to connect??<BR>
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I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back<BR>
says ASUS 701 -- model number??<BR>
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After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and<BR>
Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all,<BR>
I soon found that for anyone with large trifocal fingers and arthritic<BR>
eyeballs, about its only worthwhile use would be sitting in waiting<BR>
rooms.<BR>
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So I fitted it and its peripheral paraphernalia into a suitable<BR>
receptacle, and kept that handy. But it happened that I had no occasion<BR>
to use it for several weeks.<BR>
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When I did, the battery had gone dead, just sitting there.<BR>
<BR>
Once I got it usable at all again, two of the three boots were<BR>
unusable, and the other was my least favorite.<BR>
<BR>
Yesterday I installed Fedora 7, from a live CD in an external USB<BR>
drive -- twice. After the second install, which wouldn't boot, I tried<BR>
booting it with the puppy stick inserted -- and it booted, but to Fedora.<BR>
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But it can't seem to find the ethernet cable which is plugged right<BR>
into it. (Come to think of it, anaconda never asked me its usual routine<BR>
questions about connecting.)<BR>
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How do I get the fool thing to connect??<BR>
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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert<BR>
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