ASUS Eee PC 1201N On Linux

[foormea]

Did you try to update your BIOS?

Rev 318 is latest.
I cannot downgrade (tried).
Tried flashing with same rev, it won't work.

[Apopas]

Did you try to update your BIOS?

[foormea]

bios resets...

Anyone ? Thx!

Hi. I'm having similar problems: VERY often, when I restart the netbook, the BIOS will be reset. I'll have to go into BIOS and save settings, or press F2 to continue. That's VERY annoying.
Apparently there's no problem when using Windows. I've sort of noticed that if I hibernate the netbook instead of shutting down or restarting, it goes around the problem and doesn't reset the BIOS.

I'm using Kubuntu 9.10 on a 1201n BIOS rev 318.

Anyone using same OS with same BIOS rev? Having this problem? I don't know whether the problem comes from the chipset that's yet to be fully supported, or whether it comes from my hardware. Please do give some feedback. Much appreciated!

Thanks.

[Pseudobloguista]

It worked! Thank you very much.

[Pseudobloguista]

Hi, dowload the file from here by choosing RTL8191SE-VA2.
Dbl click on it and it will be opened by File Roller. Drag the folder inside the archive obn your desktop. Start Terminal and:

cd Desktop
cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0013.1204.2009
sudo su
make 
make install
reboot

And that's it!
Another thing when you will try your wireless make sure that you have WIFI turned ON (see the blue LED) !

It worked! Thank you very much.

[mdalacu]

Please help me!
i'm a newby... and i need a step by step help on these:

"When using the most recent driver package (rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1211.2009.tar.gz) this does work with the 1201N netbook on both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu. Building the driver is as sample as running make and then manually copying the wireless kernel driver to the appropriate location along with the RTL8191SE firmware (using make install was broken). After manually installing this driver the 802.11 b/g/n WiFi had worked without any problems, whether using an open or WPA/WPA2 connection."

Hi, dowload the file from here by choosing RTL8191SE-VA2.
Dbl click on it and it will be opened by File Roller. Drag the folder inside the archive obn your desktop. Start Terminal and:

cd Desktop
cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0013.1204.2009
sudo su
make 
make install
reboot

And that's it!
Another thing when you will try your wireless make sure that you have WIFI turned ON (see the blue LED) !

[Pseudobloguista]

Please help me!
i'm a newby... and i need a step by step help on these:

"When using the most recent driver package (rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1211.2009.tar.gz) this does work with the 1201N netbook on both 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu. Building the driver is as sample as running make and then manually copying the wireless kernel driver to the appropriate location along with the RTL8191SE firmware (using make install was broken). After manually installing this driver the 802.11 b/g/n WiFi had worked without any problems, whether using an open or WPA/WPA2 connection."

[yotambien]

The bad experience made me not eager to have a conversation with you. And I had told you that before. I wouldn't mind much though to answer to specific questions, but answer from conversation differs a lot. What I realized after I made my post and you answered was that we were going to have a long conversation since the matter was theoritical/philosophical. Mistake.
Anyway, I keep not understanding your answers. The bubble thing you said was not an insult of course and I don't remember it all, but the other one it is, in my culture at least. I suppose that's our problem finally, we consider things totally different, not only because we have different brains but because we have different cultures. I don't think you are a mean person, or one with psycological problems as have been mentioned. I just think a lot of disagreements leaded to misunderstandings. But I'll give you a friendly advice, while I believe that is possible one man to be correct and whole the other world wrong, this is not the case in general and as far as I have seen you are not liked by a good percentage of the people here. Maybe is your manner? Maybe a misconception of me? I don't know. But whatever the case just check. And because I'm the kind of person who loves simplicity and hates complexity, I'll simply say I accept your apologise.

Thank you. I assure you there were no 'tricks'. Our opinions don't differ much about this issue; after all I recognized that I wasn't nice with you about both things I said--so not much of a cultural difference. I wouldn't apologize if I didn't think you were genuinely offended and that you deserved it.

Back to our regular disagreements now, which are counted by the thousands!

[Apopas]

The bad experience made me not eager to have a conversation with you. And I had told you that before. I wouldn't mind much though to answer to specific questions, but answer from conversation differs a lot. What I realized after I made my post and you answered was that we were going to have a long conversation since the matter was theoritical/philosophical. Mistake.
Anyway, I keep not understanding your answers. The bubble thing you said was not an insult of course and I don't remember it all, but the other one it is, in my culture at least. I suppose that's our problem finally, we consider things totally different, not only because we have different brains but because we have different cultures. I don't think you are a mean person, or one with psycological problems as have been mentioned. I just think a lot of disagreements leaded to misunderstandings. But I'll give you a friendly advice, while I believe that is possible one man to be correct and whole the other world wrong, this is not the case in general and as far as I have seen you are not liked by a good percentage of the people here. Maybe is your manner? Maybe a misconception of me? I don't know. But whatever the case just check. And because I'm the kind of person who loves simplicity and hates complexity, I'll simply say I accept your apologise.

[yotambien]

It was my mistake, I admit it. But then, I spoke clearly and said that I shouldn't have begun a conversation with you at all. There was not reason for me to guess that this conversation wouldn't have the same end as that other thread's one.

Heh, I remember once when I was a kid I had an argument with my father. I got so angry that I would not look or speak to him. That morning I went out to have a hair cut or something like that. At some point on my way back home, with my head already full of kids' stuff, I looked up and met him on the street, and I couldn't help but shout merrily "hi, Daddy!". Of course, a fraction of a second later I remembered that I was supposed to be extremely angry and that I should have never ever speak to him again, but I had just done!

Anyway, it appears to me that you have made your mind long ago, and now you read every single line with a magnifying glass looking for reasons that support that position. To me, a 'sorry' seems reasonable for saying that I had "wasted my time with you" and that you "lived inside a bubble". There isn't any trick in saying that back when it all happened I would've never admitted any wrong doing. There isn't any trick either in saying that I don't consider it to be a grave insult, and yet adding a 'sorry' because now I do acknowledge that it wasn't nice. I'm not sure what else you were looking for, if anything. If you don't accept this you can ignore me as you were doing (with limited success) or you can just make use of the blacklist option.