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After so much issues I encountered installing and configuring Ubuntu Eee on my Eee PC, I was finally able to make it work like complete OS. Compiz Fusion is also working but apparently, it crawls easily. I’m running it on my 630Mhz, 512MB Asus Eee PC.
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Truly is. John Ramvi once mentioned the title on a comment to my previous post. It was indeed. I just finished installing Ubuntu Eee for the 6th time. And this time, I did not even think of opening the Screen and Graphics.

With my previous installations, I always had to fix the screen resolution after the next restart. Why? Because the first time the system boot up, I used to take a look at the Screen and Graphics to check the available resolutions, then back up the xorg.conf. Just in case I might need it. Then the next boot, I always see a warning dialog box saying something like “Ubuntu Eee is running at a very low resolution.”

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Looks like I fixed the wifi at last. I was able to download a more updated version of madwifi when I went to the repo. So essentially, there’s only one simple change with the original steps.

sudo apt-get install build-essential
wget ‘http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz‘
tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007
make clean
make
sudo make install
reboot

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I was able to install Ubuntu Eee 8.04 beta successfully but since then, I have not configured the wifi properly. I have followed the instructions on the wiki, forum and justing gill, who is lucky enough to have his Ubuntu 8.04 perfect OOTB, but to no avail for me.

I was actually able to use the wifi even without applying the madwifi patch, but I had to turn it on from the BIOS before starting Ubuntu up. Or I have to leave the Wi-Fi ‘on’ before I restart. It could be fine though since I can always turn it off anytime I want but it seems like Network Manager is also not behaving properly. There’s no harm I observed though but it’s still better if it could work properly.
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Now, the coolest OS ever made for Asus Eee is on my hands. It’s the Ubuntu Eee. I have not installed it on my eee yet but I will in a while. In the meantime, I’ll try the Live mode.

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