Posts Tagged ‘asus eee pc’

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The “h” key on my eee pc didn’t work.
Bought a brand-new replacement one from eBay for £9.39 inc p&p.
Installed in 2 minutes flat. (3 spring-clips at the top and one ribbon-connector.) Sorted.
The new one’s a “Windows” keyboard, but the machi…

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Missing the familiar Windows “START” menu?
Easily resolved.

Fire-up a terminal window.
Work>File Manager>Tools>Terminal

You should now see:

/home/user>

Do This:

/home/user> sudo bash [enter]
(This opens a command line shell with ri…

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Info:
The Asus eee PC (Linux) uses Xandros Linux. Installing and updating programs is done via “repositories”.
There’s a file which specifies which repositories to use. By default, these are the ASUS repositories.

Firstly, get yourself connected to th…

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** PLEASE NOTE – THIS WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA **

I can’t believe how FAST (1.5 minutes), and easy this is..
Firstly, you need to know that the eee pc has a restore partition built-in, so you don’t need to faff about with Cds, DVDs or USB sticks. All y…

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I acquired an old eee pc 4g recently. Needed some bits, which I have now sourced.
However, I couldn’t get it to connect to my talktalk wireless broadband. :(

The problem appears to be the WPA2 encryption on the router. It works fine for the MSI netboo…