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How to make WiFi work?

Forum thread started by BEEFCAKE on Fri, 2010-01-08 18:26

Hey guys

Just installed Haiku. How do i get my Wifi to work on my Acer Aspire One with an atheros card?

Can't seem to find anything anywhere.

Installing Haiku on Acer Aspire One - internet issues..

Forum thread started by BEEFCAKE on Thu, 2010-01-07 23:37

Hey guys

I've been looking around and can't seem to find any solution for my Acer Aspire One. I am trying to install Haiku through my external dvd writer/player, but I keep getting the same message during boot:

"PANIC: did not find any boot partitions."

I've allready tried to disable DMA and run safe mode. I've tried running GParted and fdisk through it and create a BeFS partition. Still the same problem. Any solutions?

Ikon Distro

Forum thread started by peat on Wed, 2010-01-06 15:58

Found this on the Web: http://www.ikongui.com/
Does somebody know something about this OS/Haiku Distro?
Looks like a very young project and there isnt much info on the website.

Haiku mostly working on Fujitsu u810 laptop

Forum thread started by Greg_E on Sat, 2010-01-02 04:47

Not sure where to put this so it goes here.

Over the last several days I've been playing with many different operating systems on my little Fujitsu u810 laptop. Many don't ever even finish installing. Haiku seems to mostly be working and is nice and fast.

Here is what is odd, described only so that support can be built into a future release.

- Battery - does not seem to be supported at all.
- Atheros 5006 abg wireless does not seem to work even with the 12/26/2009 nightly build but I have not tried to install it the "hard way" yet since I need to plug it into a wired port.
- Audio mostly seems to work but it not what I would call normal. When headphones are plugged in the audio still comes out of the speaker, would be nice to change this.
- Touchscreen - it sees part of it and when it is touched the point moves to the lower right corner of the screen. I assume this would be extremely low on the list.
- Sees USB webcam, not sure if it works as I never got an image out of it. This is less than extremely low on my list of priorities I never want to use it.
- Bluetooth doesn't even seem to be within its realm of thought yet.
- O2 flash reader does not function at all, this seems to be a problem with a lot of operating systems.

Over all I am impressed with how well it runs. I purchased the R5 professional version of Beos years ago and never did too much with it, nice to see that it pretty much continues.

Hardware Support on a Dell Latitude D620?

Forum thread started by BryanV on Wed, 2009-12-30 18:41

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct forum or not, so feel free to move it or moderate the living tar out of it.

I have purchased (but not yet received) an old, used, Dell Latitude D620. Mine will be a Core Duo, T2400, Intel graphics.

Does anyone have one of these and know if it boots Haiku? How about hardware support? WiFi, network card, power management, etc.

This is going to become my primary development box at home. Translation: Ubuntu (for work) & Haiku (for pleasure).

Words cannot express how much I have missed this community over the past year. Thanks to Apple being a bunch of blow-hards and not releasing a new JDK for PPC, I've been able to make a business case to buy an inexpensive used x86 laptop to the wife. How lucky for me!

Regards,
-Bryan

Norhtech Gecko Edubook

Forum thread started by RhapsodyGuru on Tue, 2009-12-29 14:03

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/12/norhtec-gecko-edubook-first-look-netbo...

This would prove interesting if we could get Haiku to run on one of these. I wonder if the specs are doable?

Guru

Just discovered Haiku

Forum thread started by Lynton on Tue, 2009-12-29 09:44

Hello,
I have just discovered Haiku and am very excited about using and programming with it.
Microsoft Windows Vista is currently my main OS but I have used Linux and Minix for many years and have written a few more small utilities for those OSes.

Haiku R1 Alpha1 is running perfectly on a Compaq D510SFF. All hardware appears to be supported on that machine which is of course good news. This machine is not in the most accessible location here so I have installed VNC server on it and can now operate it remotely to good effect.
I've downloaded the SVN Repo (trunk) for Haiku and have built the OS on the D510SFF machine and it works just fine.
I've been periodically updating the repo and rebuilding to stay current.

I use a pen-drive to transfer the ISO image from the D510SFF machine to Sun Virtual Box running on my Vista machine but there must be a better way ?
Could I for example add a second hard drive to the D510SFF and dual boot it with R1 Alpha or "Current" ?

I'd love to help out the Haiku project in some way so I have been looking at the list of "Simple Tasks" but first I need to familiarize myself with the source tree before going any further.

The ideal situation for me would be to have Haiku running on my Dell Inspiron Mini 10V Netbook computer but the Wireless Networking won't be supported just yet so its probably a no go at the moment. The machine has a "Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card" installed currently but this can be swapped out for something a bit more standard if only I knew what to go for.
Also the sound "Realtek ALC272-GR Audio A04" probably won't work in Haiku ?

Thus far I have found the IRC to be very friendly so thanks for your patience with this Haiku newbie :-)

Kind Regards

Lynton

England UK

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