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The main purpose of this post is to gather some informations needed to properly install ubuntu jaunty on an Asus eee PC 1101HA.


Update : Karmic on a eee pc 1101 HA :

Network issues :

• Wired :
  
  I had to download Atheros driver and compile it to enable wired network.
  
  
  First, do not forget to install build-essential.
  

  
  
  sudo apt-get install build-essential
  
  tar xzvf AR81Family-linux-*
  
  cd AR81Family-linux-*
  
  ./configure
  
  make && sudo make install
  
  

  
  


• Wireless/Wi Fi:
  
  Easier : just need to install linux-backports-modules package.
  

  
  
  sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-`uname -r`
  
  

  
  

Graphics issues :
Intel poulsbo drivers are required to have a working display. First make sure your system is up to date.
Then add the fellowing repository to your sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

and add ubuntu-mobile repository key :

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C6598A30

Now we can install poulsbo drivers :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d psb-firmware

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to have a device section looking like this :

Section "Device"

Identifier"Configured Video Device"

Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"

Option "DRI" "on"

Option"IgnoreACPI" "yes"

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

EndSection

Last step :

sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source

NB: If you got a kernel upgrade you need to remove psb-kernel-source and reinstall it in order to build the module for this kernel.

sudo apt-get remove psb-kernel-source && sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source

Update : Karmic on a eee pc 1101 HA :

It seems that Wireless works out of the box on karmic (ubuntu 9.10), wired network driver must be compiled and installed in the same way I did for jaunty.
Poulsbo graphics drivers install seems to be a little more tricky. Here is a thread on ubuntu forums that explains how to do this, but I haven’t tested it yet.