Netbook Asus 1005HA

Characteristics

• ASUS 1005HA ACPI BIOS revision 1102
• Build Date 10/16/09
• EC Firmware Version:EPCD-029
• CPU Intel Atom N280 @ 1.66GHz, FSB 667MHz, L1 24kb, L2 512kb (2 logical cores, 1 physical)
• 2Gb 667MHz DDR2 non-ECC CL5 SODIMM (the original one was a 1Gb SODIMM)
• Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller
• BIOS v02.58 American Megatrends
• HDD ST9250315AS 250GB

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8da2c67c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13055   104857600    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           13055       29094   128835584    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           29094       30400    10485760   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4           30400       30401       16064+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

• Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
• Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
• Battery LION ASUS 1005HA 5800mAh 63Wh
• Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller

Ubuntu

For this one I wanted a minimal maintenance stuff for basic laptop operations so I chose the latest Ubuntu at the moment: Lucid Lynx.
Actually they have a version special for netbooks, installable from a USB stick, cool:

Ubuntu Netbook 10.04

The only thing is that I wanted to only replace the 2 NTFS partitions and keep the last 2 partitions for now.
First time I tried I used the partition tool from Ubuntu installer but if it succeeded completing the install, after reboot it appeared that the partition table didn't contain refs to the root partition, ouch! So the new partition table was never written to the disk.
I rebooted on a good old FCCU liveCD v12 and changed the partition table the way I wanted then I did again the Ubuntu install, this time without troubles.

Out-of-the-Box

• Suspend-to-RAM
• webcam
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth seems to work, not tested

Not working / not tested:

• multi-touchpad
• sdcard reader
• VGA output
• ethernet
• audio
• hibernate

Tuning

sudo vi /etc/default/grub
=> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
sudo update-grub
reboot 

Now eeepc=laptop kernel module will be properly loaded

$ ls /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/
available_cpufv  cpufv_disabled   input/           subsystem/
camera           disp             modalias         uevent
cardr            driver/          power/           
cpufv            hwmon/           rfkill/          

There is also packages eee=applet & eeepc-acpi-scripts but it seems to work without them as FN buttons work well

Additional packages

• openssh-server

Firmware upgrade

It has v1102, since there were a couple of new versions:

1401 Update brightness table
1301 Improve Wifi performance
1301 Update EC firmware
1203 Fix there is no "safely remove hardware" icon in windows 7 when plug in SD card.

So let's try to install v1401

• http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx
  • EEE family / EEE PC / 1005HA / Linux
  • BIOS 1401 + BIOS utility AFUDOS

TODO

Misc links

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Ubuntu%2010.4%20Lucid%20Netbook%20Edition
• http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Models
• http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA
• http://www.blogeee.net/category/asustek/nb10/1005h/ (fr)
• How to open a 1005HA
• http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=fr-fr EEE family / EEE PC / 1005HA / Linux