Fedora 10 in Asus Mini Nova Lite PX24 (1)

Mar 11

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I recently bought a small Asus Mini Nova Lite PX24 and of course, installed GNU/Linux on it. I chose Fedora 10 because at that time, it was the only distro I tested with the required driver for the Wireless interface:
Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter

Other distros I have tried in the Asus PX24 are:
* Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron [Doesn’t work]
* OpenSUSE-11.1-GNOME [Doesn’t work]
* Debian 5.0 Lenny [Doesn’t work]
* Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Alpha-5 [Works]

I was a Kubuntu fan until release 8.10, which completely destroyed the usability and stability of the distribution when shipping a non-stable version of KDE4. Switched then back to Gnome in Ubuntu 8.10, far more stable than the KDE counterpart. So now that I know that next stable version of Ubuntu also makes the Wireless networking work out-of-the-box, I thought of changing the PX24 back to Ubuntu.

But I won’t… I want to try yum, RH’s system-config-whatever scripts, SELinux… all those things that are not available in Ubuntu.

Posted on March 11, 2009, in Operating Systems and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

  1. Duncan Margetts | June 12, 2009 at 5:30

    When you say 8.04 Hardy Herron “Doesn’t Work” do you mean just the wireless adaptor doesnt work or is there more to it?

    With thanks,

    Duncan.

  2. drehbahn | June 12, 2009 at 9:07

    Just the wireless adaptor didn’t work out of the box. Of course, you can try to update the kernel coming with 8.04 to a newer one to get it. In fact, I now have gNewSense installed in the Asus PX25, and gNewSense is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I needed to install one of the latest linux-libre kernels to that gNewSense to have wireless working.

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