Gentoo Linux on the Asus W7S-A1B
I've been using my Asus W7S-A1B for awhile now, and it's a cool little notebook. I, as usual, put Linux on it when I first received it with little headache. Just make sure to use a 2.6.22+ kernel so that you have the mac80211 stack for the Intel 4965 wireless controller. The SDHCI drivers work flawless too, and it's nice to actually be able to use the integrated SD card reader. The only caveat is that the webcam has no driver. Maybe I found a new little side project. :)
However, lately I've been looking into bandwidth while transferring files and noticed it is extremely slow with not only wireless, but wired too. Needless to say I will have to look into it. Maybe it's something I compiled in the kernel (or lack of something).
However, lately I've been looking into bandwidth while transferring files and noticed it is extremely slow with not only wireless, but wired too. Needless to say I will have to look into it. Maybe it's something I compiled in the kernel (or lack of something).
posted by dfu at
5:09 PM
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Hi, I'm trying to install a gentoo 2007.0 in my w7s which the same configuration of you but after the installation I can't boot on the root device ( maybe some SATA problems). I think I 've forgotten some options in the kernel configuration. So, I just want to know if you can post your .config to help me, and I think I'm not the only one in trouble with gentoo in this notebook. It'll be very nice. I'm sorry about my english but I'm French and not bilingual.
Thanks very much, I hope gentoo will work a day in my laptop.
Just to let you know, I got everything working fine now. I believe I just didn't enable something stupid.
Right now I'm using 2.6.23 w/ Suspend2 and x86_64 NO_HZ patches, but here's my .config. I'll see if I can post my .config below.
Make sure under "Device Drivers -> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) Drivers" you have "AHCI Support" selected. You will need a kernel version 2.6.19 or higher. So, I have the AHCI Support selected as well as the Intel ICH support. That's it's for SATA drivers.
In dmesg:
ICH8M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH8M: chipset revision 3
ICH8M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.3
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 3 ports 3 Gbps 0x7 impl SATA mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf pm led clo pio slum part
scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
Asus W7S-A1B Linux Config
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I beg to differ =P
there is a webcam driver, and it's already in portage, the webcam in the W7S (or at least in the one I got, a Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd device) uses the new USB UVC standard, and the UVC driver works with it.
Not to say you don't have a side project, many laptops (including my W7S) have the camera physically mounted upsde down, and the linux driver has no way to flip the image (as of yet) if you have the same camera, with the same problem, maybe you can solve that and send me a patch! but no need to re-invent the wheel as the image looks fine, just upside down.
emerge:
media-video/linux-uvc
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
Yes, I noticed in late November that later versions of the linux-uvc module include support for the W7S's Chicony webcam. I, however, had been searching for a long time for anyone with support for the device, and all I ended up finding was in some German linux users group about how there is no current driver. The cam's support is either fairly recent, or it was just documented recently (my guess is in November sometime, but I don't really feel like digging around too much).
As for the upside down picture, I vaguely remember the driver developers saying something to the effect of, "This is not our problem. That is what we get when we talk to the hardware," as a kernel driver shouldn't have to post process this information, and it should be done in userspace. I suppose I probably should have updated this, since it tends to get looked at by others with the W7S, but yes, there is a driver for the cam now.
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