My desktop PC is still running Kubuntu Hardy, it’s running dandy, so I see no real reason to upgrade it to Intrepid. But my EEE 701 PC was still running an early Hardy with KDE 3.5.x so I decided to wipe it and do a fresh install of Intrepid on it. Just for the hell of it. Armed with my Intrepid ISO I fumbled about trying to remember how to use the iso2stick script, but accidentally discovered a GUI app called Unetbootin which will put almost any distro on a USB stick! You can grab a .deb of it from: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Unetbootin - awaiting orders...
You simply choose which distro you have (from the drop down menus at the top of the window), give it the ISO file, choose your USB drive and click OK.
Unetbootin - creating a bootable USB stick with Kubuntu Intrepid!
Installing Kubuntu Intrepid to the EEE was easy as ever. Just boot from the USB stick, click the install icon, fill in several details and wait a bit. First boot was pretty quick and everything looked (KDE 4.1) pretty. I immediately tried the wireless and… it didn’t work. Some posts in Ubuntu Forums suggest disabling the wireless drivers to make it work, but no go. So it was up to Google to (again!) provide the answer. And provide it did! One search result let me to Array.org which is a repository for an EEE PC *buntu kernel which fixes the wireless, webcam and such.
Kubuntu Intrepid with the Array.org kernel, note the (working!) wireless icon in the tray
Installing the Array.org kernel is easy. You basically add the Array.org repo to your sources.list (along with it’s key) and install the linux-eeepc package. Full details are at: http://www.array.org/ubuntu/setup-intrepid.html
I’m very impressed with KDE 4.1 on the EEE, it might be a low spec notebook but it can do semi-transparent wobbly windows, with drop shadows, and all without breaking sweat!
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Tags: 4.1, 701, array.org, eee, iso2stick, kde, kde4, kernel, kubuntu, pc, sound, ubuntu, unetbootin, webcam, wireless
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