Comments on: Old Netbooks Won’t Be Able to Run Chrome OS

By: joe

joe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:59:53 +0000

jisakujien I would love to understand your instructions but they are too complicated. Could you please state them a little more clearly?

Also what is the root password? root doesn’t work for me.

By: kaye

kaye — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:01:15 +0000

Typing this comment on an eee 900 running chrome from a USB stick…

pwnt?

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Older netbooks won’t get Google OS | Laptops Today — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00:53 +0000

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By: jisakujien

jisakujien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:29 +0000

This is being typed on my eee 1000 right now, using my wireless network. If you download the rt2860sta driver from ralink’s site ( http://www.ralinktech.tw/support.php?s=2 ), extract it, change the Makefile so it points to the correct places for LINUX_SRC and LINUX_SRC_MODULE (~chromiumos/src/bulid/kernels/kernel-i386-intel-menlow/linux-2.6.30 and that + /drivers/net/wireless, change os/linux/config.mk to use WPA supplicant (i also changed HAS_NATIVE.. but that is probably wrong), make, copy the .ko and RT2860STA.dat (after configuring it) to the eee somehow, put the .ko in /lib/modules/2.6.30/kernel/drivers/net/wireless and the .dat in /etc/Wireless/RT28606STA/, sudo insmod the .ko, sudo /sbin/ifconfig ra0 up, sudo dhclient ra0 and it got an IP.

All in all it wasn’t that much of a hassle, in the scheme of all things i’ve ever had to do to get stuff working in linux.

However, even after I got it working it certainly still has rough edges. In Chrome ^, is supposed to bring up battery and network settings (or localhost:8080) but it is just browser settings and a few random things. http://localhost:8080 isn’t anything either. It still things wireless is disable and trying to enable it just freezes that chrome window for 30 seconds. The Chromium icon on the left is supposed(?) to be an applications menu, but asked for a google.com account and when I clicked on a link on it it led me to a page I cannot get back from (no browser hotkeys work on that page, all new windows inherit the same page…). On a plus side the Fn keys seem to work mostly (volume up/down/mute/brightness up/down, pg up/down, home end).

By: Older netbooks won’t get Google OS

Older netbooks won’t get Google OS — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:17 +0000

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By: jisakujien

jisakujien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:14:33 +0000

I also got it to work, except for wifi. It is pretty easy to tell why though, as the rt2860 driver is not loaded and isnt even on the system. I’m pretty sure it is in 2.6.30 mainline, so I just need to include it in the list of drivers built and copy it over the network since I crosscompiled in the first place.

By: Brad Kellett

Brad Kellett — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:14:25 +0000

I’ve built Chrome OS from source and got it to run on my ancient original eeePC, WiFi and all. Made a video of it here – http://bradkellett.com/p/chrome-os-booting-on-my-original-eeepc/

Sure, Google won’t officially make it available to just download and install, but there will be a strong community around getting it on non-supported hardware I think

By: crwbot

crwbot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:42 +0000

I wrote a response but it didn’t show up on the site. In short, it works. Wifi on the 1000 doesn’t work with a clean install – gotta figure out why. Everything else does though, and it’s fast.

By: jisakujien

jisakujien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:33 +0000

Did you run into any problems getting it to build? Does the wireless (WEP, WPA, WPA2?) or wired network work? I’m still building chromium for it, much less the OS. It would be nice to know if I’m spending my time on making it completely unusable instead of just crippling it! Oh well, if it doesn’t work it gives me an excuse to ditch xandros.

By: crwbot

crwbot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:01:28 +0000

The version open sourced today does boot on my SSD Eee 1000.