Eee…

FedEx arrived shortly after UPS yesterday and with them, the Eee PC.
The first thing I did was to install the memory card which had arrived a few minutes before. Then I immediately plugged it in and in less time than predicted it was charged up. I’ll admit for a moment I was taken aback as I am used to battery lights going from orange or red to green and this one simply goes off. I had to pull up the system status info to see that it was actually okay. Now that I know what to look for there’s no problem.
Next I tried the WiFi connection and it worked fine with my home network. All good so far.
Then it was time to get my USBConnect 881u running. I downloaded a prebuilt sierra.ko and followed most of the instructions found in the linked thread. It worked fine, though I’ve yet to complete things by making my ip-up.local file edit my resolv.conf file. Some folks don’t seem to need to do that, I do. Go figure.
Then I decided to upgrade the software through the Easy Interface tabs. That went fine, including the BIOS update. I did have a moment after that update when the wifi failed, but I simply deleted the saved connection and reconnected. All good.
Finally I downloaded and installed the stuff necessary for Advanced Desktop. That too worked fine and now I’m resting on tweaks for a bit though I still need to get a kernel that recognizes all 2 Gb of my memory, right now it see only 1 Gb.
The best source of information I’ve found so far is at eeeuser.com. Besides articles, there isn’t much I haven’t been able to find either in their wiki or their forums.
Aloha!