2009-06-28T15:29:32-07:00 244 <p>I give. I had grand ideas about posting up all I've discovered about putting Gentoo on my Eee 1000, but I have to yield. After several hours of trying, I can't get user-level access to the Bluetooth stack, and the wireless just won't play nice with NetworkManager. I don't know what to try next, and I won't live without either. I hate hate hate this. I really wanted this to work. I don't like splitting my attention, but I don't have any intention of putting Ubuntu on any of my other computers, and I need this thing to work.</p> <p>To get the wireless card driver even running at all, I had to go to the very latest gentoo-sources kernel, and specifically enable the "playground" drivers. Then I had to download the driver from RealTek so that I could grab the firmware. I'd be fine with all of this, but during all the reboots to sort to make sure I had done things correctly, I've seen the machine get hung so badly that I had to unplug the power and pull the battery. Twice. Well, that's worse than getting dumped back to the login screen on Ubuntu, so back I go.</p> <p>I'm tempted to put Win7 back on. It was great. It's just that I'd spend days downloading and configuring the various programs I take for granted on Linux.</p> 2009-06-28T15:29:32-07:00