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)
- 1024x600 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) AW-NE785H
- ASUSTek Broadcom Bluetooth 2.1 (USB) AW-BT253
- Battery LION ASUS 1005HA 5800mAh 63Wh
- Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller
- Webcam 0.3Mpx UVC 1.00 IMC Networks (13d3:5108)
- SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
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
Working:
- Suspend-to-RAM
- Suspend-to-Disk (hibernate)
- webcam
- Wi-Fi
- Audio playback
- CPU freq scaling 1/1.33/1.66GHz, ondemand
- sdcard reader
- Silverkey disable touchpad
- Hotkeys: suspend, Wi-Fi on/off, disable touchpad, brightness up/down, volume off/up/down
- My 3G USB key (Vodaphone K3565 = Huawei E160)
Not working?:
- multi-touchpad
- audio mic
- Hotkeys: backlight on/off, taskmanager, super-hybrid-engine
Not tested:
- Bluetooth
- VGA output, hotkey display toggle, hotkey display resize
- ethernet
Tuning
eeepc-laptop
$ modinfo eeepc-laptop filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.ko license: GPL description: Eee PC Hotkey Driver author: Corentin Chary, Eric Cooper srcversion: 9A474055673699361160D37 alias: acpi*:ASUS010:* depends: vermagic: 2.6.32-23-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586 parm: hotplug_disabled:Disable hotplug for wireless device. If your laptop need that, please report to acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net. (bool)
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
In /var/log/syslog
eeepc_laptop: Eee PC Hotkey Driver eeepc_laptop: wlan hotplug disabled eeepc_laptop: Hotkey init flags 0x41 eeepc_laptop: TYPE (2000000) not reported by BIOS, enabling anyway eeepc_laptop: PANELPOWER (4000000) not reported by BIOS, enabling anyway eeepc_laptop: TPD (8000000) not reported by BIOS, enabling anyway eeepc_laptop: Get control methods supported: 0xe101713 eeepc_laptop: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver input: Asus EeePC extra buttons as /devices/platform/eeepc/input/input11 NetworkManager: <info> Found wlan radio killswitch rfkill5 (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill5) (driver eeepc)
$ ls /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/ available_cpufv cpufv_disabled input/ subsystem/ camera disp modalias uevent cardr driver/ power/ cpufv hwmon/ rfkill/
Hotkeys
There is also packages eee-applet & eeepc-acpi-scripts but it seems to work without them as FN buttons work well
Touchpad
aptitude install gpointing-device-settings
& enable circular scrolling (System / Pointing Devices)
Additional packages
- openssh-server
Bugs
At reboot I sometimes encountered the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/572279
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
- Unzip archive
- Rename file 1005HA-ASUS-1401.ROM into 1005HA.ROM and move it to a USB stick (my 6Gb USB HD wasn't detected I had to use a real 1Gb USB Flash)
- Reboot on the USB by pressing ALT-F2 while rebooting
- Flash is done automatically
- Remove USB stick & reboot
Misc links
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Ubuntu%2010.4%20Lucid%20Netbook%20Edition
- http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=337986
- http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/asus_eee_pc_1005ha
- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Models
- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA
- http://www.blogeee.net/category/asustek/nb10/1005h/ (fr)
- http://www.blogeee.net/codex/index.php?title=Asus_EeePc_1005HA (fr)
- How to open a 1005HA
- http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx EEE family / EEE PC / 1005HA / Linux