[hemmerling] The Notebook "ASUS Eee PC 901"

Related pages:

• Notebooks.
• The Notebook "ASUS K95VB".
• The Notebook "ASUS Eee PC T101MT".

• EN.Wikipedia: "ASUS Eee PC", DE.Wikipedia: "ASUS Eee PC".
• Geizhals.AT "eee 901".
• HDD installation.
  • YouTube: "How to add more storage to Asus Eee PC 901" - note that some ASUS 901 items don´t have the interface to install HDD hard drives and CompactFlash hard drives.
  • YouTube: "Super Talent 64GB MLC SSD for Eee PC 901/900A/701-7A/702/100".
  • YouTube: "Super Talent 64GB SSD for Eee PC Problems with Power Saving" of the Super Hybride Engine.

• Drives:
  1. “SCSI2(0,0,0)(sda) 4.0 GB AT ASUS PHISN SSD” ( “SM-ASUS-PHISTON” ).
     • 3GB Ext4 partion, Mounted at ”/home”.
     • 1GB swap partition.
  2. “SCSI2(0,1,0)(sda) 8.1 GB AT ASUS PHISN SSD” ( “SS-ASUS-PHISTON” ).
     • Boot flag, mounted at ”/”.
     • No swap partion on this drive, due to lack of space with Debian 11.
• Wifi hardware is detected, but no properly driver is installed.

• TechRepublic "How to install sudo on a Debian minimal server", with “USERNAME” = name of the first and only user.

  su root
  apt install sudo
  su - root
  usermod -aG sudo USERNAME
  

• Error boot message “firmware: failed to load rt2870.bin”.
• Effect:
  • If Wifi is enabled, there is no access to the local network ( e.g. 192.168.168.* ), just access to Internet.
  • If Wifi is disabled, access both to the local network ( e.g. 192.168.168.* ) and Internet.
  • If you disable Wifi by Debian desktop menu item ( “Turn Off” ), you must press the ALT-F2 key combination to turn it on again. First you are in “Flight Mode”. You may leave “Flight Mode” by the Debian desktop menu.

• Dell Community "Vostro 1000 Linux wifi" - Check detected hardware:

  $sudo lspci -v
  01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe
  	Subsystem: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe
  	Physical Slot: eeepc-wifi
  	Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
  	Kernel modules: rt2800pci
  

• Add a “non-free” component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

  # Debian 11 "bullseye"
  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free

• Life of a webmaster. Another web-master's blog "Linux does not see Wi-Fi on Realtek chipset. 'firmware: failed to load rt2870.bin' error (SOLVED)", 2022.
• In Debian Linux and Kali Linux, the rt2870.bin firmware is placed in the firmware-misc-nonfree package, install it:

  sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

• On Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives, run the following command:

  sudo apt install linux-firmware

• Debian Wiki "Firmware".
• Google - Search for "firmware failed to load rt2860.bin".