On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth at comcast.net> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:57 -0700, nate wrote: > > > Beartooth wrote: > >> > >> I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on > >> which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't > >> even use my eth0. > >> > >> Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did > >> fine > >> with all the same exact hardware, suggested that CentOS, being designed > >> for stability rather than the bleeding edge, likely lacks drivers; so I > >> need to get some. > >> > >> Anybody know what drivers (for wireless as well as ethernet cable) I > >> need, and how/where to get ones to fit CentOS?? > > > > Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? It's not really intended for that > > purpose, if your having to ask where to get the drivers for it your > > probably not suited for running CentOS on the EeePC. Your better off > > with Fedora, or Ubuntu or something that has broader hardware support. > > I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm > family; I have indeed installed and run F8, F9, F10, and Eeedora on this > machine. Unfortunately, until I can afford to replace it with a somewhat > larger netbook, what's left of my eyeballs and fingers limits me to using > it in waiting rooms, and not much of anywhere else. > > Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. > F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- yes, > real sixty-second minutes; it's not a typo -- just to boot. And then had > to find wifi. > > > I installed Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix on my EeePC 2G surf yesterday(onto > > a 4G SD card), it was pretty painless although the general UI has too > > much eye candy, so it is choppy. The wiki says future kernel updates > > should address some of the sluggishness. > > I've also been trying plain Ubuntu, Eeebuntu, Crunchbang, > DreamLinux, and a couple more. > > I'll run an OS of that ilk if I have to. > > But for fifty-odd years, the Baby Boomers have trodden my heels, > doing all I do a few years later. Some of them, even more than I, will be > wanting a mature RedHat-type OS, well back from the bleeding edge, to > enable them to check their email, etc., rather than thumb antediluvian > magazines in waiting rooms. > > What's more, CentOS will be able to oblige them, once it gets up > to something like present Fedora kernels. Why not a little sooner? > > And just in case, do please tell me where to get this ultra- > exemplary netbook remix, which I have somehow failed to encounter. (I > think all my Ubuntoid OSs so far are 8-based.) > I like CentOS better than Debian also but, apparently, the new Ubuntu 9.04 works really well on netbooks. It's here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090427/07ce4b90/attachment-0005.html>