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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Palm on January 13, 2009, 09:43:56 AM
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I am in the process of buying a NetBook to use with AROS (native, not hosted) and would like to know if someone has successfully installed AROS on either:
a) EEEPC
b) ASPIRE ONE
c) ..erm..other :)
I need a SMALL "sofa" laptop/netbook and want to run AROS if the GFX+AUDIO+WLAN is supported somehow.
Anyone ?
regs
Espen
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I looked at the Bounties, and it seems to be one to support EEE PC already.
So after reading up, I think that installing AROS on either NetBooks is not the problem. The problem is to get audio and usb and wlan to work :-(
Ok, I can live without sound, but wlan is a must when surfing from the sofa with these types of NetBooks.
Espen
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I've got an EeePC 901 (Linux on SSD) myself so I'll have to look at contributing to the bounty. It's a really nice little machine, perfect for an Amiga-like os if you ask me.
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I have 2 acer aspire netbooks and a very small ATOM motherboard I have assembled. AROS works great on all of them. Did you know the ATOM processor has a full complement of Core 2 Duo instructions (though it's single core at the moment but hyperthreaded), so it's very likely (haven't tried it yet) that the 64bit compile of AROS will work just fine on it..
Windows 7 x64 works great on the Atom, so I suspect that this will as well..
UPDATE: the ATOM in a netbook is 32-bit only at this time. Intel has non-netbook atom motherboards (the 200 series that include a full x64 instruction set) the 330 Atom is a 200 with Dual Core Support..
I am going to post a photo of an Acer Running AROS shortly..
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If you could try to install AROS natively on your EEE PC and the Aspire One PC, I would be very happy to hear the result as I am not sure which NetBook to buy. The Acer Aspire One (110L ?) cost close to nothing ($200) so it would make a nice Sofa Laptop :-)
My most important use would be networking. So if WLAN works (not via usb dongle) I can live with VESA modes and no sound and bluetooth and all the other stuff :-)
Espen
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A better place to ask this question would be: the AROS-Exec website (http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/).
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Unfortunately AROS only has a wireless driver for the very old Prism II wireless chipset.
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I have two of those dongles for USB. However, would AROS be able to use those dongles ? Does it have USB support ?
Espen
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Palm wrote:
I have two of those dongles for USB. However, would AROS be able to use those dongles ? Does it have USB support ?
Espen
AROS supports USB, but you still need specific drivers for the wireless chips.
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And if the USB chip is a prism2 (RT73 e.g.?) it should work?
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No, the Prism II driver doesn't support USB. I don't think the RT73 chipset is in any way related to Prism II in any case. The only Prism II USB adapters I'm aware of are bulky devices with PCMCIA cards inside.
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...which means AROS on a netbook (or any notebook i guess) will be a non-networked machine. That kinda suck a little. It takes away much of the essence, imo.
Anyone else has a solution to this ?