Thursday, February 21, 2008

Cracking Cloudbook's Wireless

It's 2am, and I just got off Chicago-Linux's IRC, now having a plan on how to tackle a huge issue with the Cloudbook - it's shoddy wireless. It seems as if something is up with the driver/module. Right now I'm trying to get something to run on the Realtek 8187 wireless chipset with gOS, but, if push comes to shove, I might just toss it and use ndiswrapper.

More details later....I'll keep you informed.

1 comments:

Marion said...

I bought my wife the Asus Eee and the wireless works fine with the Xandros OS that comes with the system. However, I prefer Ubuntu, so I installed that. I had the wireless working great for weeks then suddenly yesterday it stopped. No matter what I did (ndiswireless, etc) I couldn't get the wireless to work again. I had to go back to the Xandros OS.
I am sorry to hear that you are having problems with the wireless. I was hoping that the Cloudbook might replace the Eee for my wife, but if the wireless doesn't work that is out of the question.