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Asus eee PC | New Keyboard

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 machine’s a Linux one. No problem. The only difference is the new one has a Windows key instead of a “home” button. I can live with that.


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Asus eee PC (LInux) | Add a "START" Menu..

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 rights to do ANYTHING. Be careful!)
Now do this:
/home/user>mkdir /home/user/.icewm [enter]
/home/user>cp /etc/X11/icewm/preferences /home/user/.icewm [enter]
You have just created a directory in your user area, and copied the default preferences file into it.
Now do This:
/home/user>nano /home/user/.icewm/preferences [enter]
(This loads the preferences file into the “nano” text editor..)
Find the line with “TaskBarShowStartMenu”, and changes the value to 1.
(Use F6 to call the find function)
Hit Control-X and overwrite the existing preferences file. 
Now type “exit” [enter]  twice, and reboot the machine.
You should now have a START menu.
Excellent.


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Asus eee PC (LInux) | Fix WPA Wireless Connection | Install Updates

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 the internet via a wired connection.

Now fire-up a terminal window. Work > File Manager > Tools > Terminal.
This will give you a command line with a “/home/user>” prompt.

Do this:
/home/user>  sudo apt-get update

Wait until it’s finished, and then do this:

/home/user> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

This will take about 5 minutes.

Then type “exit”, and reboot the machine.Disconnect the LAN cable.

Now log in and hit the “Wireless Network” button under the “Internet” tab. Select your wireless connection, enter the WPA key, and connect. You may also want to select the “connect at boot” option on the far-right drop down.

That’s it. You’ll now find that you have a number of options in the “Update Programs” option under the “Settings” tab. Update everything. Especially the Anti-Virus. (It’ll take a while..)


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Asus eee PC (LInux) | Restore Factory Defaults

** 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 you need to do is trigger the restore procedure.

On boot-up, keeping pressing F9. You should then get a boot menu with three options. Option 3 is “Restore Factory Settings”. Select it, and hit enter. Now say yes to anything it asks. When finished, it’ll reboot.
Enter a new username and password (twice).

That’s it. Honest.

Now you will want to install updates..

* What? F9 doesn’t work?
On boot-up, select F2. Switch OFF silent boot. Switch OFF quick boot. Save settings.
Now reboot and try F9 again. Sorted.


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Asus eee pc (linux)

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 netbook, and even the allfine wince (ouch) machine. But not the eee pc.

The solution appears to be a BIOS update, available from ASUS, which will require using the wired connection. Which DOES work, I’ve tried it. However, I stupidly tried the “update software” icon on the desktop, and now all updates are greyed-out.

A bit of digging later, I found LOADS of useful info on the web. Going to try manually updating the machine, and I don’t expect too much bother.

All I need then are filezilla (which I KNOW is available for eee pcc, and a source code editor in the style of crimson editor. Unfortunately, not available on Linux.. Any suggestions, anyone?

Talking to one of my (day-job) colleagues, I discovered that he used two eee pcs (Windows) to run the entire musical performance at a recent charity event, both machines running the fulll version of Sibelius! Impressive..
Apparently, FOUR people asked where the “orchestra” were.. 🙂
They even had a conductor, conducting the eee pcs…. classic.


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