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This topic describes the steps for installation of openSUSE 11.0
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Thanks,
Linux-Magazin, GER
for this tip.
Finally it was an easy and straight forward procedure. But in the beginning I run in a trap and have a little messed up my system. What happend:
The WLAN card is one with Atheros chipset which is supported by Madwifi. Because the madwifi driver contains some proprietary part it's not included in distros. Some posts (i.e. http://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=26172 (German)) reports you have to use a special madwifi version. You can calm down - just the actual one does also its job. There are tons of manuals how to install a madwifi driver in the net (try http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo). So here comes a brief overview only:
make su make install
rmmod ath5k
modprobe ath_pci
The Aspire One comes with a LED for the Wifi feature. In the Linpus Linux it indicates whether the WLAN card is turned on or off by the hardware switch.
Initially it's not working. You have to change kernel parameters to reanimate it. The commands are
sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3 sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1
For the last option you also can use the values 0 and 2. Read the madwifi article below what these options mean.
Thanks MrP (see more on http://www.skritus.de/2008/08/22/opensuse-110-kde-41-acer-aspire-one-a150l/#more-47).
Another article to get more info about the LED is http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/EnableLEDs.
The question still is where to put these commands in.
For my opinion boot.local is not the right place. My favorite was an udev rule. But it didn't worked at all for me. The
udevadm list test /class/dev/ath0
looked fine after applying a RUN rule similar as described in the Madwifi link above. But the parameters were not set in the proc folder. So I placed the following entries directly into /etc/sysctl.conf:
dev.wifi0.ledpin=3 dev.wifi0.softled=1
and this worked like a charm.
The webcam works quite out-of-the-box. openSUSE installs the uvcvideo driver per default and the camera runs without any additional setup.
To check its function I used the luvcview program but you can use another one as well. The camera is not properly taken by Kopete which is a minor problem for me.
The Aspire One is not a member of the S2RAM whitelist. Thus Suspend to RAM doesn't work initially.
I've tried s2ram -f and it seemed to be ok. So I created a file called config inside the /etc/pm/config.d directory and put the line
S2RAM_OPTS="-f"
into it.
The builtin features of KPowersave now works also with Suspend to RAM.
There are open issues:
The Skype install is very simple. Just download the relevant RPM file from the Skype homepage and install it with YaST.
A detailed description can you find here.
So far I didn't get the internal mic working. Even with a headset the sound quality is really poor.
Andreas Hartmann, 27.08.2008 20:53:
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