Problems getting my little Assus online:
August 19, 2010 2:47 PM Subscribe
I need some advice about getting my little Assus online:
I am running Linux. I have an Assus Eee PC netbook.
900A. It is adorable, I love it, but it can't go onto a WPA2 encryption system. My friends router is a Netgear wireless-g router wgr614vi0
She is on Clear (formerly Clearwire ) I CAN get on with my used 2G iPhone. Took some doing but as far as my netbook goes, we did get an Ethernet cord,plugged it into the router and I could not get on. We tested the Ethernet cord on her lap-top. She got a dialogue box that said she needed to. configure for a third party account.
We are both over 50. So please it is going to help us if directions are pretty simple. Thank you!
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I am running Linux. I have an Assus Eee PC netbook.
900A. It is adorable, I love it, but it can't go onto a WPA2 encryption system. My friends router is a Netgear wireless-g router wgr614vi0
She is on Clear (formerly Clearwire ) I CAN get on with my used 2G iPhone. Took some doing but as far as my netbook goes, we did get an Ethernet cord,plugged it into the router and I could not get on. We tested the Ethernet cord on her lap-top. She got a dialogue box that said she needed to. configure for a third party account.
We are both over 50. So please it is going to help us if directions are pretty simple. Thank you!
Sent from my iPhone
Although, I don't know why it wouldn't connect with an ethernet cord. Someone with a better knowledge of linux and is better at walking someone else through this will help, hopefully.
posted by Busoni at 3:13 PM on August 19, 2010
posted by Busoni at 3:13 PM on August 19, 2010
Response by poster: Thanks, I will have a look atthis now.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 3:17 PM on August 19, 2010
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 3:17 PM on August 19, 2010
Can you get online anywhere with your netbook anywhere else?
posted by Raichle at 3:50 PM on August 19, 2010
posted by Raichle at 3:50 PM on August 19, 2010
Which linux, the Xandros that comes with the Asus, or another one? (I use a plain vanilla install of Kubuntu).
if you're using linux that comes with the Asus, I'd try installing wicd. If you're using (k)ubuntu, definitely install wicd; the standard (k)ubuntu network manager is well known to be crap.
Installing wicd: if you can, apt-get it, do that:
sudo apt-get install wicd
then get rid off networkmanager:
sudo apt-get remove networkmanager
If you can't apt-get it, download the wicd tar. You'll need python too -- I don't think the Xandros has this. Once you have both, the install from source is pretty simple, just follow the instructions in install.txt.
I'll really encourage you to install a standard ubuntu if you haven't already -- it's much much easier to work with that than the Xandros. Installing eeebuntu is probably easiest; you'll need a 4GB usb drive.
You may want to install a netbook remix version; this gives you a simplified program lauch UI.
I just installed a standard kubuntu (kde 4.x Lucid Lynx) onto a 8GB sdhc card; network remix (and gnome) annoy me.
(I also have kde 3.x hardy heron on the preinstalled 4gb drive. That one is slightly more responsive, but I pretty much always use the slightly slower lucid install, as it's more up-to-date and the compositing UI is pretty if slower.)
You can get plenty of help for all this at http://forum.eeeuser.com/.
posted by orthogonality at 4:03 PM on August 19, 2010
if you're using linux that comes with the Asus, I'd try installing wicd. If you're using (k)ubuntu, definitely install wicd; the standard (k)ubuntu network manager is well known to be crap.
Installing wicd: if you can, apt-get it, do that:
sudo apt-get install wicd
then get rid off networkmanager:
sudo apt-get remove networkmanager
If you can't apt-get it, download the wicd tar. You'll need python too -- I don't think the Xandros has this. Once you have both, the install from source is pretty simple, just follow the instructions in install.txt.
I'll really encourage you to install a standard ubuntu if you haven't already -- it's much much easier to work with that than the Xandros. Installing eeebuntu is probably easiest; you'll need a 4GB usb drive.
You may want to install a netbook remix version; this gives you a simplified program lauch UI.
I just installed a standard kubuntu (kde 4.x Lucid Lynx) onto a 8GB sdhc card; network remix (and gnome) annoy me.
(I also have kde 3.x hardy heron on the preinstalled 4gb drive. That one is slightly more responsive, but I pretty much always use the slightly slower lucid install, as it's more up-to-date and the compositing UI is pretty if slower.)
You can get plenty of help for all this at http://forum.eeeuser.com/.
posted by orthogonality at 4:03 PM on August 19, 2010
Response by poster: O can get on any place with WEP encrption, all this advice sounds good so far. I am really not enough of a nerd to run Linux in the first place. I do wonder though why the measure of plugging in an Ethernet cable did not work. Could anyone tell me why?
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 2:44 PM on August 20, 2010
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 2:44 PM on August 20, 2010
If you try disabling the wireless totally, it may work with an ethernet cable.
posted by achmorrison at 1:20 PM on September 6, 2010
posted by achmorrison at 1:20 PM on September 6, 2010
Response by poster: I Nives have total access now, thanks everyone!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 10:30 PM on December 13, 2010
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 10:30 PM on December 13, 2010
Response by poster: *moved have my own internet access and no further problems. Again thanks everyone!
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 10:33 PM on December 13, 2010
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 10:33 PM on December 13, 2010
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Pretty much follow it step by step, following the appropriate directions to your circumstances, hope it's not impossible to decipher.
posted by Busoni at 3:11 PM on August 19, 2010