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Samsung N140 issues
  • bikepunkbikepunk December 2009
    Hi all

    I'm back on slitaz, and now from a Samsung N140 netbook.

    I'll use this thread to give feed back about how it works and to ask help when needed.

    -the speakers work out of the box

    -Xvesa cannot display over 800x600

    -the ethernet works out of the box.

    -for the wireless, I had to install the windows xp driver using tazndisbox, it works quite well, BUT after install, at some point, with apparently no reason, I cannot connect to the internet, that's weird.

    I mean : the wireless worked properly during a few boots, but now, the iwconfig seems right :
    tux@slitaz:~$ iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    dummy0 no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

    wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"SpeedTouch24DB13"
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:68:77:4F:FB
    Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
    RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:46/100 Signal level:-66 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

    eventhough I cannot access to the internet

    I'm curious to learn why and how to fix it, because for now I have to use a liveUSB to conncect to the internet.
  • seawolfseawolf December 2009
    Hi BikePunk --

    I have an N130 with the same issues:

    - installing X.org resolved the resolutions problems. Pretty sure the display only goes up to 1024x600, not 1280x800.

    - I used the WIndows XP drivers form the other parititon as oyu did. I cannot, however, connect to *protected* wireless networks! This is also the case in Fedora 12 so will probably be picking up a £20 USB wireless dongle as I did for my desktop, which can connect to them!

    - The brightness keys will work if you 'attach' them to either the XFree86BrightnessUp command or `xbacklight -set +10%` program. I've yet to do this!

    Good luck!
  • jozeejozee December 2009
    Which wireless cards do you have? Please check wiki for the commands to troubleshoot and report here.

    For resolution, also check out 915resolution pkg w/o xorg
  • seawolfseawolf January 2010
    It's a RealTek RTL8192 (possibly SE).
  • nsawnsaw January 2010
    Based on Samsung website (http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-computers/n-series/NP-N130-KA01UK/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=spec&fullspec=F), N130 only support 1024x60. So how can you say 1280x800?

    My 700 eeepc only support max 800x480, but I can use xrandr panning to extend it to whatever resolution I want, and it work with Intel KMS too (archlinux-2.6.32.4, xorg-1.7.4 RC2).

    Have you tried to compile a linux kernel yourself? perhaps all the drivers already included there (with the latest stable release of course).

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