PXE with Acer Aspire One D150 ?

Hello
We are about to start testing Acer Aspire One D150 and I cant get it to
work with PXE boot, it wont find the NIC drivers. The NIC is "Atheros
something" and I dont even know where to start. Tha machine does not have a
CD so I cant boot with the boot-cd either...
I tried putting in the new imaging files from zdm7sp1ir3a_hp3 (feb -09) but
same result, coudnt find NIC.
Please advice.

How bloody hard can it be for the Novell-people to post an image which works
for Aspire one D150 ? I dont have the knowledge to compile this stuff
myself, I hate when this happens as soon as we are testing new hardware...
So... there isnt a working image today ? :(
/D
"mpullen" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[email protected]...
>
> Thomas--
>
> A couple of days ago 'I posted a similar request in this forum'
> (http://forums.novell.com/novell-prod...ml#post1753904),
> which included the information you've requested:
>
> Attansic (Atheros) AR8114 "atl1e" NIC (device ID 0x1969 0x1026)
>
> Same as Dan, we've tried using the 'Feb 2009 imaging driver update'
> (http://download.novell.com/Download?...d=aC2y2x_7o_Q~) (initrd dated
> 02/21/2009). The "atl1e" driver is -not- in that update, nor in the
> 12/20/2008 driver update (initrd 12/20/2008), nor the 11/18/2008 initrd
> we had been using originally. The atl2 driver apparently included in the
> 12/20/2008 update (but excluded from the 02/21/2009 update) -does not
> work- with the D150's NIC.
>
> The 'vendor website' (http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx) does not
> offer a Linux driver for the L1e NIC (the L1e is -different- from the
> L1); however, 'a source file'
> (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/wal2/l1e-linux-v1.0.1.0.tar.gz) for a atl1e
> Linux driver is linked in an article at 'ATL1E Linux Driver for Ethernet
> controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Unknown device 1026 (rev b0)'
> (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/wal2/atheros_attansic.html). Unfortunately, the
> build instructions there are for Ubuntu 8.04, which isn't helpful in a
> SUSE environment.
>
> I would love to learn to compile this myself, but cannot find a Linux
> environment in which has the right kernel source (2.6.16.60-0.21) for
> the Feb 2009 update (nor even for 2.6.16.46-0.12, the kernel from our
> previous stable imaging environment.) I've tried to 'follow the
> instructions in the Zen 7 Admin Guide'
> (http://www.novell.com/documentation/...a/a74bm8u.html),
> but don't quite have the Linux knowledge depth yet to fill in the gaps
> necessary to for it to work in our environment. Any hints on this would
> be welcome here; I'd certainly post a working driver back here if we can
> get one made!
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike Pullen
> Computer Tech
> School District of Baraboo, WI
>
>
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file attributes for the BCD store so you can manipulate it.
At the prompt, execute the attrib command exactly like this:
attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s
What you just did with the attrib command was remove the
hidden, read-only, and
system attributes from the file
bcd. Those attributes restricted the actions you could take on the file. Now that they're gone, you can manipulate the file more freely - specifically, rename it.
To rename the BCD store, execute the ren command as shown:
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
Now that the BCD store is renamed, you should now be able to successfully rebuild it, as you tried to do in Step 3.
Note: You could delete the BCD file entirely since you're about to create a new one. However, renaming the existing BCD accomplishes the same thing since it's now unavailable to Windows, plus provides you yet another layer of backup, in
addition to the export you did in Step 5, if you decide to undo your actions.
Try rebuilding the BCD again by executing the following, followed by Enter:
bootrec /rebuildbcd
which should produce this in the Command Prompt window:
Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
Please wait, since this may take a while...
Successfully scanned Windows installations.
Total identified Windows installations: 1
[1] D:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? Yes<Y>/No<N>/All<A>:
meaning that the BCD store rebuild is progressing as expected.
At the Add installation to boot list? question, type Enter Y or
Yes, followed by the Enter key.
You should see this on screen:
The operation completed successfully.
meaning that the BCD rebuild is complete.
Restart your computer.
Assuming that an issue with the BCD store was the only problem, Windows should start as expected.
If not, continue to troubleshoot whatever specific issue you're seeing that's preventing Windows from booting normally.
Important: Depending on how you started System Recovery Options, you may need to remove a disc or
flash drive before restarting.

[SOLVED] Questions on Acer Aspire One netbook resolution

I've been digging through the wiki and googling everything, but I just can't figure out how to get the dang resolution right!
I've got an Acer Aspire One (D257, model ZE6) and technically, it should be 1024 x 600. Everything seems like it's the right size, but it's just slightly blurry and looking at it makes me a bit dizzy, like it's just slightly off. I've read that the Acer netbooks are SIZED to 1024x600 but use the RESOLUTION of 1024x768. Could anyone confirm this? Am I way off base?
The wiki suggests using xrandr to change the resolution, but I get the BADMATCH error. The solutions I googled mostly involve editing an xorg.conf, which doesn't exist. Trying to generate it myself always fails (xorg -configure, which always leads to "number of created screens does not match number of detected devices").
Maybe I've just missed something really obvious... But I can't seem to find it.
Last edited by DevPug (2013-07-27 17:41:41)

WonderWoofy wrote:There is the kernel driver, which is the i915 module from the kernel, and then there is the Xorg driver, which is provided by the xf86-video-intel package. Do you have both?
OH MY GOD. I followed the wiki to a T, but when I double-checked, I didn't have i915 listed in the MODULES="" line. So I must have not saved it, in my hurry to get everything going. My desktop looked okay-ish, but my web browser was resizing text improperly, hence the 'dizzy' effect.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for catching my silly oversight!
Gusar wrote:I wouldn't say "crappy display", I'd say you don't like the default anti-aliasing.
This is also true, though... My next task is to find better anti-aliasing that I can get along with. The default just isn't cutting it, now that I can see it clearly.
Last edited by DevPug (2013-07-27 17:57:58)

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