They made me realize I was an idiot… never bothered to check to make sure the Cat5 cable was good… it wasn’t. Get home, and found this great person by the name of SynrG on the Ubuntu IRC server. MANY MANY failed attempts later, I gave up and wife wanted to go out to the movies. I’ll just make this into a bootable USB and run from there.
Oh wait… I deleted the recovery partition… oops. Ok, let’s just go back to XP and verify that the things actually work. Spent all day on it, ended up with what should have worked but didn’t… gave up. Next step, try the IRC rooms, not always so helpful, but sometimes you find a nice guy/gal that knows what they are doing. Then you discover that package requires another one… repeat, a lot.
Eee pc 901 xp support dvd drive download#
Ok, shouldn’t be a problem right… just go find the right drivers… oh was I wrong.įirst, the EEE has no optical drive, and with no network connection I had to download the missing packages and put them on a USB drive to move over.
Eee pc 901 xp support dvd drive drivers#
Of course things couldn’t be easy, both the wired and wireless drivers wouldn’t work. So, we all know what happened to XP the second I got home, wipe and replaced with Ubuntu. Lots of flying, and always got work to do. After that it’s off to the producers meeting in the states, and then to Kuala Lumpur with my wife. Going to visit a friend in Shanghai, then head down to Hong Kong. I really needed one as I’m going on vacation in a week.
Took me about 6 hours before someone told me the Linux version wasn’t released yet. Only the XP version of the 901 is available right now, that means only 12G of space (Linux version has 20G) and… well, it’s got windows on it. Really takes a few minutes to get used to the size of the keyboard, but once you’ve adapted it’s smooth sailing from there. Yup, I went out and got one a couple days ago, wow these things are small.
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