As everything works with Xandros, I’d feel like a right dork swapping to an os that disables some of the eeepc’s features. And since I did some tweaking with the os on my eeepc, it doesn’t look so childish, plus I’ve enabled a bunch more repos so there’s a good selection of apps to choose from.

So, I’ll stick with Xandros for a while longer. Maybe I’ll install Intrepid. Or maybe the one after. I dunno, but it’s not like there’s any rush.

The only issue left for me if the bad signal i get in wireless, at best 55%… sitting next to the wi-fi routeur (while my macbook gets 100%). Trief madwifi and ndiswrapper (a tiny touch beter). But can’t get to 100% and have difficult to hook up distant networks (in café and so on).

Anyone experiencing the same / having tweaked it eee to boost wireless performance?

I simply followed that guide and didn’t have to do anything special. Hope that helps.

I solved the ethernet problem by loading the kernel from openwrt. After I did that, I plugged in and downloaded everything I needed to get madwifi working. I also updated my system.

I then hoped back into the default kernel and fiddle w/ madwifi. At first it did not work, but I was persistent. I really didn’t want to use ndiswrapper.

What I found was that I was missing /etc/acpi/asus and remembered reading that this module could be built. I built it using directions I found on the eee pc wiki:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant eeepc-acpi-source
sudo m-a a-i eeepc-acpi
sudo sh -c ‘echo eeepc-acpi >> /etc/modules’

Of course I had to do this while in the OpenWRT kernel.

After I did this, I found that I could toggle my wireless on/off by echoing 1 or 0 to the /proc/acpi/asus/wlan pseudo file.

Viola! Wireless works. No need for ndiswrapper.

Now if I could only find out what is going on w/ the ethernet in the stock kernel.

Last question, can I reallocate swap (225MB) back to my primary partition without having to reinstall the entire system?

Thanks!