To update the BIOS without Windows, install UNetBootIn and use it to put FreeDOS on a flash drive. Now extract the e.g. v.3305.zip to it and reboot the machine. Press F12 in the right moment and select your USB flash drive from the list. Press ENTER when you see the boot: prompt, then launch the… Read More »
Chipset: Atheros AR2425 Change Regdomain The WiFi card comes set to regdom 0x65 (World/ETSI C) which limits the channels to 1..11. (iw list shows channels 12..14 as disabled.) In Germany, there are also channels 12 and 13 which are unusable this way. But there’s the tool ath_info which can read and write the EEPROM on… Read More »
Model: JMicron JMB38x PCI Express to 1394a OHCI and Memory Card Host Controller Enabling the device The cardreader device seems to be hidden on bootup and you have to enable it by issuing: This didn’t work on the commandline but inside the rc.local, my 16GiB SDcard in the left slot was recognized fine. Multicard-reader driver… Read More »
There exist several manuals on how to install Linpus from a recovery DVD. Basically you just boot the recovery DVD on some PC, select “create rescue usb key” and insert a 2 GiB (or more) usb key. ⚠️ 1 GiB won’t work – the recovery image is slightly larger ⚠️ After the recovery stick has… Read More »
There’s a nice help page at the Ubuntu page. Needed: Missing features: Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Works almost out-of-the-box. You just have to blacklist the ath_pci module to make the WLAN card work. Everything else seems to work fine. You might have to keep the setkeycodes mappings for the popup displays when changing volume or brightness… Read More »
After playing around a bit, my Aspire One (v3114) got bricked after a normal reboot (blank screen, power led and fan on, nothing else). There’s a nice recovery procedure for the BIOS at macles. Somehow an A150L with the v3114 BIOS didn’t let me update it to v3304. The Power-LED was blinking and the LED… Read More »