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Asus Eee

Xandros sucks! SuOlli's EeePC hacks . Article: Asus default vulnerable to hacking . Discussing the Eee's flaws . Eee user Wiki samba security fix

i-hacked.com hardware - interesting, but the asshole on eeeuser.com who submitted that as "proof" of an expliot was a dumbass.

goeszen.com: asus eee securing checklist

adding extra packages to the EEE install

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Once the terminal is open, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file by executing
 sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list; (vim is also available if you prefer).

When the file is open, navigate to the end of the file and add the following lines to it:

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/xs2.0/upkg-srv2 etch main contrib non-free

deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main

deb http://www.geekconnection.org/ xandros4 main

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/eeepcrepos/ p701 main etch

Save the file and exit. 

Add the following to /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *

Pin: origin update.eeepc.asus.com

Pin-Priority: 950

Package: *

Pin: origin

Pin-Priority: 925

Package: *

Pin: origin xnv4.xandros.com

Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *

Pin: origin dccamirror.xandros.com

Pin-Priority: 850

Package: *

Pin: origin www.geekconnection.org

Pin-Priority: 750

Package: *

Pin: release a=stable

Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *

Pin: release a=testing

Pin-Priority: 650

Package: *

Pin: release a=unstable

Pin-Priority: 600

Now use apt to update the repository metadata:

$ sudo apt-get update

Once this is done you can use apt to install software that does not come with the 
default Xandros OS. For instance, to install the text editor joe, use:

$ sudo apt-get install joe

Apt also allows you to see what dependencies may be pulled in when you attempt to
 install packages by performing a dry-run install transaction. This is very good idea to
 keep from getting a system full of dependencies you did not expect. This can be done
 by adding the -s argument to the apt-get command:

$ sudo apt-get -s install joe
}}}

Eee kernel source / compiling

discussion about kernel upgrading -- discussion abt installinlg gcc on eee --- Atheros driver source? - discussion 1 -- discussion 2

From the linux ChangeLog 2.6.28.1:

commit 9e48dd3dd3a746e3daa6835da088d89d1921c6fb
Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 3 11:27:38 2008 +0100

    ath5k: ignore the return value of ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
    
    commit 8b0162a3dc5c30e862b7a73da29e32de3170f5e4 upstream.
    
    Noise floor calibration occasionally fails on Atheros hardware.
    This is not fatal and can happen if there's simply too much
    noise on the air. Ignoring the calibration error is the right
    thing to do here, because when the error is ignored, the hardware
    will still work, whereas if the error causes the driver to bail out
    of a bigger configuration function and does not configure the tx
    queues or the IMR (as is the case in reset.c), the hw no longer
    works properly until the next reset.
    
    Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau 
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
    Cc: Bob Copeland 
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

I am glad the wireless drivers are in the mainline kernel, but it looks like they need more work...

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