Asus Eee PC 1005HA Crunchbang Installation Guide

Amarant · 2009-08-06 18:48:14

As a result of the following post: Asus Eee PC 1005HA user(s) wanted by forum user Raubsau we (Raubsau and me) wrote the following guide to installing crunchbang 9.04 on the Asus Eee PC 1005-HA. In which we'll guide you to getting the wireless card and hotkeys to work. Most of the guide applies to other Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 based distros as well.

Getting a Crunchbang image onto a USB-Stick.
Download a Crunchbang iso from here: http://www.crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/downloads
Install UNetbootin from the repository, otherwise download it from http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/.
Use UNetbootin to write the iso image to a USB-Stick.
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Making sure you've got the required packages for enabling wireless after installing crunchbang.
Download the following packages from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/.
- linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
- linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
- linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
Save these packages to your USB-Stick, you can use the USB-Stick that the image is on.
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Booting into the Crunchbang live environment.
By default the 1005HA has something called 'Boot Booster' enabled which might prevent you from booting using a USB-Stick. To disable this go into the BIOS by repeatedly pressing F2 after turning on the Eee PC. Don't change anything and just press F10 to save and exit from the BIOS. After having exited repeatedly press ESC to get into the boot device selection screen. Once there just select your USB-Stick. When the UNetBootin menu pops up you should choose 'Default' and then wait untill crunchbang has started up.
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Installing Crunchbang
Right click on the desktop and choose 'Install > **Install Crunchbang Linux**' from the menu to start the installer.
Move through the installation process as you usually would.
After filling out the 'Keyboard layout' form a popup might appear asking you if it should unmount partitions that are in use. If you're strictly following this guide you should click No, since the partitions in question are probably on your USB-Stick, which we'll need to complete the installation.
After that you should reach the 'Prepare partitions' section of the installer. Personally I prefer to manually setup the partitions to make sure the Windows XP recovery partition stays intact, but that's up to you.
Just complete the installation process and wait for your newly installed Crunchbang to finish booting.
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Installing a newer kernel which includes the wireless driver.
Find your way to the USB-Stick's contents using the file manager (open this by pressing the 'windows key + f').
Once there install the three packages from step 2 in the following order:
- linux-image-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
- linux-headers-2.6.30-020630_2.6.30-020630_all.deb
- linux-headers-2.6.30-020630-generic_2.6.30-020630_i386.deb
Reboot (you'll automatically boot using the kernel you've just installed)
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Preparing for the installation of eee-control
Configure your wireless connection. Then perform a system update by pressing the 'windows key + u'.
Download http://www.softwarebakery.com/files/eee … 1005HA.deb.
This is a custom version of Grigori Goronzy's eee-control_0.9.4, modified to work better on the 1005HA.
You can find the unmodified version at http://greg.geekmind.org/eee-control/.
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Installing and setting up eee-control
Install the eee-control_0.9.4_1005HA.deb package.
Press Alt+F2 and type eee-control-tray to start the eee-control tray icon. If everything went well you should see an icon appear in the system tray with the Eee PC logo.
You can now setup eee-control-tray by right clicking on the icon and choosing preferences. There you can assign actions to the hotkeys on the keyboard.
Note: Don't worry if the performance settings are not available, they will be after a reboot.
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Setting up the volume hotkeys
Right click on the desktop and go into 'Preferences > Openbox Config > Edit rc.xml'. Add the following couple of lines to this file.
If you've saved the file right click on the desktop again and go to 'Preferences > Openbox Config > Reconfigure'.

    <keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>amixer -q set Master 5- unmute</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>amixer -q set Master 5+ unmute</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute">
        <execute>amixer -q set Master toggle</execute>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Edit:
- Updated the customized version of eee-control to version 0.9.4.
- Added clearer attribution to Grigory Goronzy for his eee-control.
- Moved eee-control_0.9.4_1005HA.deb to different url.

Last edited by Amarant (2010-02-21 11:29:11)

anonymous · 2009-08-06 18:50:55

@Amarant - have you got the wired (ethernet) connection working?

Amarant · 2009-08-06 19:01:40

anonymous wrote:

@Amarant - have you got the wired (ethernet) connection working?

Not right now no, but previously I had it working using a driver from this page: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx which doesn't seem to be available anymore. I haven't been able to compile this, what I think is a newer version, http://partner.atheros.com/Download.aspx?id=103 as of yet due to some compile errors.

Edit:
Fixed the compile errors by changing one of the source files sad .
That did the trick and wired networking is working now.

Last edited by Amarant (2009-08-06 20:40:07)

dove · 2009-08-14 15:05:19

The fast way around the "boot booster" is to f2 into bios and then hit f10 without bios change, On reboot the esc boot hotkey will now work.

Amarant · 2009-08-14 16:01:33

dove wrote:

The fast way around the "boot booster" is to f2 into bios and then hit f10 without bios change, On reboot the esc boot hotkey will now work.

Thanks, I've changed it in the guide.

Zwopper · 2009-08-15 16:22:23

I just got my 1005HA from work today.
Downloading now, I'll get back to you from that one soon if all goes well.

Last edited by Zwopper (2009-08-15 16:22:57)

shengchieh · 2009-08-17 02:27:27

Get this info in the #! wiki,

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/eeepc

Also I written

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/crunchbang.html

But don't bother to throw stuffs on this page. It's better to keep all the technical stuffs on the #! wiki. This eee wiki page is to attract
eee users to #!.

Sheng-Chieh

Zwopper · 2009-08-17 06:20:48

It worked like a charm, thanks for all the good pointers!

iminconspicuous · 2009-08-19 07:29:11

Amarant wrote:

Edit:
Fixed the compile errors by changing one of the source files .
That did the trick and wired networking is working now.

Could you explain exactly what you did? I'm still pretty new to linux. Everything else works great. Thanks.

Amarant · 2009-08-19 15:18:25

iminconspicuous wrote:

Could you explain exactly what you did? I'm still pretty new to linux. Everything else works great. Thanks.

Install the build-essential package

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Download the driver from http://partner.atheros.com/Download.aspx?id=125.

Extract the archive 'AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz' you've just downloaded.

tar xfvz AR81Family-Linux-v1.0.1.9.tar.gz

Ignore the errors you get while extracting (this doesn't seem to cause any problems later on).

Then enter the src directory using a terminal and do:

make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe atl1e

Edit:
Updated url to point to newest driver.

Last edited by Amarant (2010-04-27 07:44:28)

iminconspicuous · 2009-08-19 16:58:38

Wow thanks a lot. It works perfectly.

j35 · 2009-08-24 02:23:46

Just went ahead and bought the 1005ha-p - I guess I'd like to know what's wrong w/ a full ubuntu 9.04 release that
makes one want to use crunchbang (minus obvious lightweight issues). I mean, is 9.04 really slow on the 1005ha or something?

thanks,

Last edited by j35 (2009-08-24 05:07:06)

Pepo · 2009-08-29 15:08:44

Great work, thank you so much. big_smile

tartan · 2009-08-30 16:46:26

j35 wrote:

Just went ahead and bought the 1005ha-p - I guess I'd like to know what's wrong w/ a full ubuntu 9.04 release that
makes one want to use crunchbang (minus obvious lightweight issues). I mean, is 9.04 really slow on the 1005ha or something?
thanks,

I use exactly that model and i couldn't tell it is slow with latest ubuntu netbook remix, i can even run compiz with all its whistles and bells without experiencing noticeable lags. So there is nothing wrong with ubuntu.

#! just has well configured openbox, which is good for ones who just like openbox.

Amarant, thank you a lot for this howto.

willgt09 · 2009-08-31 04:15:38

So, I installed all three extra files (image, and the two headers) as instructed, but after a reboot, #! is still using the older kernel .28 not the new .30 I installed. Should I reinstall all three? Remove the older version?

thanks.

anonymous · 2009-08-31 04:20:43

When you reboot the computer you can press ESC to access the GRUB menu and switch kernels.

willgt09 · 2009-08-31 04:30:23

when I access GRUB, I get the standard "CrunchBang, kernel 2.6.28-13-generic". This is leading me to believe that .30 kernel and subsequent headers didn't get installed correctly, or something. I'm new to Linux, but everything appeared to install fine (i.e. Package Manager opened and I following the simple installation process of all three files).

Dunno, if this helps, but could it be an issue with my triple boot setup? Windows 7, Jolicloud, and #!?

thanks for the help!

anonymous · 2009-08-31 04:32:24

Run "sudo update-grub" and check the menu again.

willgt09 · 2009-08-31 04:40:27

ok, did that. output -> "Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-020630-generic". It also listed /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-13-generic on the next line.

I still get the old Kernel with GRUB upon reboot.

willgt09 · 2009-08-31 05:07:27

haha, well I think I fixed that issue and "broke" something else. As instructed from another Ubuntu forum post, I performed this command "sudo grub-install /dev/sda" followed by "sudo update-grub" again. everything seemed to go well. I manually checked grub's menu.lst and saw that .30 was listed in there.

HOWEVER, that made Jolicloud go bye-bye. at least from the GRUB menu. From GParted the partition for it is there, and obviously not erased (i.e. ~3GB of used space). this is the wrong thread to post help on that issue. off to Google, I guess...

tartan · 2009-09-01 09:10:28

I found a post about installing ubuntu on asus 1005/1008HA, wich includes installing eee-tray utility from third-party repo (not from deb package) and setting up keyboard shortcut for disabling touchpad (which i now find crucial - only this mourning i had to edit about five posts on different forums because touchpad messed them up, and if it were some kind of code, it would be less evidient and more difficult to find). And one more solution of touchpad problem can be found here.

Also, Amarant, could i make a translation of your post in Russian and post it on ubuntu.ru?

Last edited by tartan (2009-09-01 09:12:58)

Amarant · 2009-09-01 10:15:33

tartan wrote:

I found a post about installing ubuntu on asus 1005/1008HA, wich includes installing eee-tray utility from third-party repo (not from deb package) and setting up keyboard shortcut for disabling touchpad (which i now find crucial - only this mourning i had to edit about five posts on different forums because touchpad messed them up, and if it were some kind of code, it would be less evidient and more difficult to find). And one more solution of touchpad problem can be found here.

I'm not sure what you mean by setting up a keyboard shortcut for disabling the touchpad, since this can be easily done using eee-control's preferences. The second link seems usefull though since I often paste random stuff from my clipboard while typing.

tartan wrote:

Also, Amarant, could i make a translation of your post in Russian and post it on ubuntu.ru?

Sure, go right ahead, a link back to the original would be nice smile

tartan · 2009-09-01 10:31:48

Well the first link is for alternative variant of setting up eee-control stuff (which looks worse now when i tried it, cause it works much more slowly, so i ), but let it stay, maybe it would be useful for anyone (when packages are upgraded or something).

As for link back - sure, it's the basics of network etiquette. )) Thank you.

innerhippy · 2009-09-09 10:03:08

First of all, thanks for all the hard work everyone has put into crunchbanglinux - I love it!

I have a 1005-HAP model and have installed 9.04.1 lite version as per instructions. Everything works well except the eee-control daemon.
When started manually using

sudo eee-control-daemon -V

it fails with

rfkill: testing /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0
rfkill: found wifi
rfkill: testing /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill1
rfkill: found bluetooth
rfkill: testing /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/eee-control-daemon", line 124, in <module>
    eee_model = EeeControl.actions.EeeActions(bus, manu, model, acpi_base, brn_path, bt_path, wlan_path, hwkey_control)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 169, in __init__
    self.brn_state = self.get_brightness() + 0x20
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py", line 251, in get_brightness
    brn = int(l.strip()) + 0x20
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

The function get_brightness in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/EeeControl/actions.py has the brn_path as /dev/null. Adding return 0 at the beginning of this function fixes the problem but a proper fix would be more satisfactory.

The daemon file is trying to determine the brightness from /sys/class/backlight/eeepc/brightness which does not exist, and defaults to /dev/null.

Any ideas as to what's going on here?

Just out of interest - my 1005HA has 160GB disk and 1GB RAM (nice..) - any reason why I should use the lite version over the standard one?

Amarant · 2009-09-09 14:39:29

Which kernel version are you using?

Can you locate the brightness settings manually?
By doing

find /sys/ | grep brn
# or
find /sys/ | grep brightness

or something like that.

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