October 15th, 2008 |
making Asus eeePC work for Ubuntu LTSP
The Asus eeePC has become an extremely popular linux based laptop, and it works great with the preinstalled OS Xandros. It is, however, a desirable thin terminal in that its small, already has a monitor and is cheap. The smaller model's screen might be a bit too small, but one can always add an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and make it a full thin terminal. In order to do that, one must fix the atl2 kernel panic bug. The instructions that follow are not mine, I found them elsewhere on the net and adapted a little:
sudo chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 nano /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
add atl2 to the modules list.
Next update your initramfs with (where kernel-version is version number of your kernel [ie. 2.6.27-6-386):
update-initramfs -k kernel-version-number -c exit
This will update the kernel and create the initramfs that is in /boot/ under a name something like initrd.img-2.6.27-6-386. The file must now be copied from /opt/ltsp/i386/boot to /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 after having renamed the existing one, for backup :
mv /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/kernel-version-number /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/kernel-version-number.bak cp /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/kernel-version-number /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/
You should now restart the asus eeePC and it should just work.
