Re: eepc waste of money

The Real Andy <therealandy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:57:05 -0500, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Real Andy wrote:

Just went out and bought an eeepc , eeepc701 for a trial. Bought the
cheapest unit, with linux. First impressions were good. ASUS has done
a great job with the UI. Very easy, very straightfoward. Does not take
long to find you way around.

So next step is to try and get internet connectivity. I am a
consultant, so working on a clients premises makes things a bit tough,
but I have a vista laptop and a 3g wireless modem. First step. try get
the 3g modem working. Its a sierra wireless. Spent a couple of hours
then gave up (for now). Decided to try internet connection sharing via
vista. Set up vista, all good. Connect the EeePC, detects network,
terminal pings google, mozilla does not work. Time to go home.

Get home, try to connect EeePC to wireless. Fail. I use WEP. My wifes
laptop connects ok (netcomm router, vista pc), mates from overseas
connect ok (mac, vista, xp), EeePC does not connect. Plug EeePC into
router with ethernet cable, perfect. I finally have internet. Great,
EeePC downloads updates, I install them with the hope that I may get a
wireless connection. Do all the update stuff, restart, try wireless.
Same shit. This thing will not connect to wireless.

Which brings to mind. Have you tried the WPA instead?

The reason I say this is, today I was attempting to config my new
Acer mini (8.9) for a in house wireless network that supposedly was
to be on a WEP system how ever, the auto detect found it to be a WPA
system. Also, I noticed that I didn't even have an option in the list
to configure it as a WEP encryption, so I don't know where the IT
department was going with that.

In the end, I successfully connected to the network via WPA and TKIP
and then just needed the certification file transported on my laptop.

Maybe that'll help.

Tried WPA as well on a different router, same deal.


BTW,
My Acer comes with Windows XP home, but I don't see why Linux
wouldn't be able to be just as satisfying.


I dont have any problems with linux per se. I think that asus has done
a fantastic job with useability. IMHO, i think they have almost
cracked it with the EeePC. Just a few minor touch ups with things like
networking and they will have that market well and truly stitched up.
At this stage however they are still just a gadget for the tinkerer. I
could not hand one to my mother to use for example.

Wireless networking in linux has historically been held back by the
proprietary nature of the wireless chipsets, with specifications only
available under NDA. This does seem to be improving now, but it
remains an area where things can still be a bit flaky in my
experience.

Then again they are flaky in windows too, with every laptop maker
seemingly bypassing the windows wireless infrastructure and providing
their own interface. I had one windows laptop that seemed to have
*three* separate wireless admin interfaces, all trying to control the
same hardware.

I've got an EEEPC too and I like it a lot. There is official support
in the latest Debian, so I will try that out soon (it's my desktop
OS).

Infact, we're working on incorporating a Linux UI on some industrial
systems to get away from AB and MS HMI systems.

I am about to start doing something similar, moving a whole bunch of
stuff to Linux for a commercial touch screen application. Will be
using the Atmel AP7 running linux. Be the first embedded programming
work I have done in about 7-8 years!

I really must get into this too, the hardware overhead is becoming
negligible for many of my applications.

--

John Devereux
.

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