Supported / Recommended NetBook?

Forum thread started by che on Tue, 2009-09-15 11:35

I have just downloaded the Alpha ISO and booted it on my Ultra 20 workstation and am very very impressed! I would like to buy a NetBook to run Haiku on as a day to day OS and am wondering if anyone has any experiences with particular makes and models and could make a recommendation?

Any info suggestion very much appreciated...

Che Kristo
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Re: Supported / Recommended NetBook?

by richienyhus - 2009-09-15 13:00

my Asus eeepc 904HA runs great, it still needs the "ath" wireless driver to be ported, but the wired "ale" driver works.

Re: Supported / Recommended NetBook?

by cb88 - 2009-09-15 22:11

richienyhus have you tested out the new haiku atheros driver?

http://dev.osdrawer.net/news/show/32

If you try it out remember it will only work for open enencrypted networks and there are a few other limitations too at the moment

@che thats cool that its working on Sun x86 hw

Re: Supported / Recommended NetBook?

by DanielDevine - 2009-09-16 02:09

Che this would be a good question to also ask in the Haiku IRC channel, as I am sure some people there would be using netbooks at the time. I hear some of the Acer Aspire One netbooks work too.

Re: Supported / Recommended NetBook?

by richienyhus - 2009-09-16 10:39

@cb88
No I did not know the prototype was the codename ath driver, but it would have to be as I just checked and all the other wireless atheros drivers are for USB devices.

I'll have a go at my local library on their unencrypted network.