Well, I finally dumped the stock Xandros on the EeePC 1000 in favor of Fedora 9. Must say I’m much happier, and it wasn’t too bad of an install. I’ll write up details later, but the basics were download Fedora, install, reboot, download latest kernel, install (no net without it on the EeePC), reboot. Yum update then reboot. To get wireless working, had to download the driver from the card manufacturer, compile, install, and good to go.
Now there were some tricks and hoops involved (fixing the wireless card source, moving the updated kernel over with a USBkey, messing with a couple config files), but it wasn’t too bad. Almost everything works, only thing not working yet is external displays, and that’s only because I haven’t gotten around to it.
Much happier now with a real firewall via IPTables, SELinux, and working English spell check! Oh, and I went ahead and encrypted the file systems as well, why not.
Til I write my how-to, here are some useful links:
This thread contains most of the info you need:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429
The wireless driver:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
The Fedora EeePC wiki:
