Doug Saylor posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:43:35 -0500 as excerpted: > A few of you guys were SOOOO helpful... I'm hoping you can help me find > a list that can help me with my current problem. I'm using a Netbook, > Acer Aspire One, Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 & I have AT&T 3G Broadband. > It's working in XP. Can't get it working in Linux. I'm looking for > mailing lists that could be helpfull. Thanks ahead of time. My Pan is > working G-R-E-A-T!
Which AA1? FWIW, I have an AA1, one of the original AOA150L models, came with some Linux distribution (thus the "L" suffix, "X" was eXPrivacy) from Taiwan that I don't remember the name of. I've intended to stick Gentoo on it, but I haven't gotten the properly rounded "tuit" yet. =:^( (Actually, I've had a rather long-term project going sorting out a big 17 gig archive of Myspace images that I torrented, ~ half a million images... I didn't have room to put the Gentoo build-space for the AA1 on my main computer until I got some of that done. I have enough room now I think, but I've been busy upgrading to KDE-4 lately -- what an upgrade! -- thus making /more/ room as I don't have both kde3 and kde4 on the machine together, but I /still/ haven't gotten back to the AA1.) Here, I got it mainly as an MP3 and video player, with the bonus that it was a small computer as well. It'll be great -- once-I/if-I-ever get it all set up! But I've not really done anything with it yet. But for that reason I wasn't particularly interested in the way-too-expensive-anyway broadband plans for it. I wouldn't have even cared if it had wifi, tho that's a nice bonus, as long as it had either Ethernet or a USB slot to plug in a thumb drive to transfer stuff to it, and it has both. But anyway, that's why I don't know much about the Internet capacities on it. FWIW, I had a /terrible/ time getting the thing. First of all, I had to wait until one shipped with something other than the tiny SSDs they put in the Asus EEEs and as, it seems, the primary option on the initial AA1s. I'd been waiting /years/ for a proper MP3 player with > 100 gigs of space, that ran a user replaceable firmware, either Rockbox or Linux. When Apple /finally/ shipped the 160 gig iPod Classic, Rockbox wasn't available for it, so I waited some more... Then the Asus EEEs came out, and I thought /perfect/... EXCEPT they initially shipped with those tiny SSDs. So I waited some MORE... Then **FINALLY** I read about the second round of netbooks, including the AA1, and that FINALLY, the AA1 was going to be available with a 120 gig hard drive, AND since it ran Linux, it had that angle of it covered as well, plus I wouldn't have to worry too much about drivers, etc. But, most of the 120 gig equipped ones (the AOA150 models) were setup for XP (AOA150X), not Linux (AOA150L). There was no way I was even going to /think/ about getting MS on the thing -- I'd have rather done without. But here in the US, it seems that's all that Acer was selling the retailers. So I was even starting to consider having it shipped in from Europe! But I found a couple Canadian retailers that sold it over the web, one of which, NCIX, had a US branch, NCIXUS. So I ordered from them. Then, even tho NIXUS said they charged in USD, the bank charged me an additional currency conversion fee (which I never did contest). Then it shipped from a Canadian warehouse, FedEx International. I was tracking it, watching it hit the international side of the FedEx-Oakland (CA,US) International shipping and customs clearance warehouse. It cleared customs... and was never checked in on the US side! So it disappeared at the FedEx-Oakland customs warehouse, somewhere between clearing customs and checkin on the US side! Fortunately, I had insured it (something told me I should, even tho I expected it to ship from a a NCIXUS US warehouse), and after about six weeks calling NCIX, FedEx, NCIX again, FedEx again, a different FedEx department, yet another one, NCIX again, FedEx again... you get the idea... they shipped another one! This one *FINALLY* got thru, but you can bet I was checking the tracking multiple times a day, watching every stop, breathing a sigh of relief after it cleared customs AND got checked in on the US side, etc. Still, I didn't quite believe it until I actually had the box in my hand, actually opened the box and ensured it wasn't a brick or something, signed the FedEx driver's shipping release, plugged it in for that first charge, and settled in to read the info that shipped with it, etc. You can bet I rather appreciate it too, even if I /haven't/ really done anything with it yet. But anyway... back to /your/ AA1. If it's one of the first AA1s such as mine, the broadband was an optional expansion card not shipped by default. I /believe/ the kernel has drivers for it, but I'm not positive. If it's a newer model, I wouldn't know. And of course while I've read about Ubuntu Remix, it really hasn't interested me. Meanwhile, there ARE a couple AA1 specific web sites that you should know about, if you don't already. They have hardware and drivers info for both Linux and XP, hardware and software tweaks, all sorts of hints and other info about them, etc. All the sort of stuff that first appeared about the Asus EEE on /its/ fan sites. They should have your driver info, and WAAAYYY more. <rummaging thru my bookmarks> I have the rss-feed from this one subscribed. The guy that runs the site goes by King. The site has been up since shortly after the first announcements, before the AA1 was ever released, initially tracking the PR on it, various reviews, then where people could pre-order it, etc. IIRC I found this when I was googling for info, pre-release. http://AspireOneUser.com This one is another fan-site/blog. "Macles" is the name of a mineral, and was the Acer development code name for the AA1. It apparently came a bit later, or at least I found it a bit later, when it was linked from aspireoneuser. He has had some of the more technical coverage. http://macles.blogspot.com I've also bookmarked a couple other pages, including an Arch-Linux forum thread on the AA1, and a Google search I did, searching for the appropriate CFLAGS and etc, since I'm going to be putting Gentoo on it. (Apparently gentoo-wiki.com, not an official Gentoo site, had some of the first info on that sort of thing, but it went offline for awhile, tho it's back now. I originally did the googling when it was offline, and the Arch-Linux thread was the next most relevant to what I was looking for, so that's what I bookmarked. gentoo-wiki is supposed to be back online now, but they've had to start from scratch as they apparently didn't have a backup when they went down, and I've not been back thru to check and see if they've gotten their AA1 info back up or not.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="acer+aspire+one"+gcc+cflags http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=398811 So while I don't have much direct help for you, those links should get you well on your way, not only to the info you asked for, but MUCH MUCH more on the AA1s. Plus, you got to see my story of all the trouble I went thru to get my AA1, and be glad you (hopefully) didn't have the same sort of problems! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." 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