[Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the Eee

[Robin Kipp]

Hi Ben,
thanks a lot for your tips. I'll see about the WLAN, I hope the WLAN-chip in 
the Eee isn't damaged or something. At this time, Debian acts as there was 
no WLAN chip really, lspci and lsusb didn't show anything WLAN related 
either... Also, could someone maybe explain quickly what needs to be done to 
get brltty included in the official Debian Eee image? I'm just curious about 
it really... :-) Thanks again for all your great support!!!
Robin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Armstrong" <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>
To: "Robin Kipp" <webmaster at robin-kipp.de>
Cc: <debian-eeepc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Brltty and the custom installer for the 
Eee


> Robin,
>
> That's great that it worked on the first try!
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:50:48 +0100
> "Robin Kipp" <webmaster at robin-kipp.de> wrote:
>> It would be great if we could get that included in the
>> official images, it doesn't take up a lot of space I think and I'm sure
>> nobody would complain about it.
>
> That's no problem.
>
>> I just have one big problem that I also had
>> under Debian before: it doesn't recognise the WLAN chip at all... Is this 
>> a
>> general issue, is WLAN not supported by the current version of Debian for
>> the Eee?
>
> It should work.  Strange.  Were you not asked by the installer to
> choose between eth0 and ath0 to install?  If you chose eth0 and
> installed over ethernet, there is additional configuration you must do
> afterwards to get wireless to work.
>
> See: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi
>
>> Also, when installing, the list of packages that should be
>> downloaded from the Debian mirror showed up. Here, both "Desktop
>> environment" and "Laptop" were unchecked, so I checked them. Was that
>> correct?
>
> It doesn't really matter.  Many of those packages aren't needed.  The
> Eee will work fine without them.  Desktop Environment is particularly
> large, so you might want to weed out things you know you don't need
> afterwards.
>
> Ben