Comments on: Billix

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:07:01 +0000

It’s up to the distro itself that you’re installing, if you install Ubuntu, then you’ll have working wifi on an eee (not including WPA PSK and WPA2). If you boot up DSL, YMMV.

Not sure on the wifi chipset at the moment.

By: Chris Olstrom

Chris Olstrom — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:22:13 +0000

To confirm that I understand you correctly: “working fine” includes WiFi on your Asus 1000H eee?

That one uses a Ralink RT2860, right? I suppose we can score at least one functioning wireless card that’s reasonably common, then.

By: Phil Dufault

Phil Dufault — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:30 +0000

Since it’s just really a disk with syslinux and the kernels and initrd for each install method, so that’s up to the distro text installer. FWIW, it worked fine for me on my 1000H eee.

By: Chris Olstrom

Chris Olstrom — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:18:27 +0000

Any thoughts on how well Billix handles WiFi cards?

I can see something like this being really useful for converting Netbooks, especially if it has passable Wireless support.

It’d also be mighty handy for on-the-road reinstalls (or distro hopping), when combined with your mobile.

By: ouija

ouija — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:51:40 +0000

Awesome man, just what I was looking for myself.