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Thanks, danielp.

My EeePC (4G Surf ) boots <20 seconds to the Xandros IceWM desktop.  But it's a gimmick!  FireFox and the FileManager take a loooong time to come up.  Shutdown is very fast except sometimes,  I think it's auto-fscking boot-drive or having trouble releasing my 2 G swap file on external Hard-drive - it just grabs it.  The 'advanced' mode is much snappier and linux techie friendly but bios speedboot option doesn't work with it  

I read that the new 900 sold out in Hong Kong in only a few days.  Hope you don't have to wait.  Ausus is supposedly selling one EeePC every 6 seconds.  Every major distro (except...) has a version "made for the EeePC" and all the early releases were in my opinion terrible compared to DSL even without internet, sound, etc.  Ask me and I'll tell you why.....

Another 'gimmick' is the 6 second restore from suspend-to-RAM.    The battery doesn't last long when suspended.  So, I never use it.  I disabled my on-lid-shutdown script cause I use an external monitor and the lid is almost always down so's not to collect dust.  also have keyboard, mouse, hard-drives and DVD/CD (mult. USB hubs.)

I can unplug very quickly and use it as a wireless  internet e-book in bed if my wife is reading a book.  My eyes are old and near-sighted  but its OK if I hold it close, like a book.

DSL on the EeePC is very fast.  For ex., Firefox+google homepage is 4.5 seconds.  After that, about 1.25 seconds.  I think I'll pre-load it  like dillo is on startup. By the way, dillo comes up perfectly sized , not as much futzing around with size issues things like some of the other distros - except for I had to specify smaller sizes for Emelfm &  Sylpheed.

Another thing is that it is a 900MHz CPU underclocked to 630.  The fan is normally inaudible, max. CPU temp I've seen is 57C; it's rated somewhere in the 90's.  External temps. are the lowest of the six laptops I have with me (on the road again)  Some people are overclocking past 900 with the fan disconnected!  But variable front-side-bus and CPU freq. based on demand is the way  to go.

Whew!  Sorry about that.  And I didn't even tell you about the best stuff.

I am going start working on the wireless, using madifi.  I let you know.

I am giving up on myDSL apps for now.  I thinks it's going to be all right as every part has worked individually, just not all at once.   Ask me and I'll explain.
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Brave...


Thanks curaga.  But, I'm not as brave or as lazy as this approach seems.

I was trying for something in-between re-building the kernel and what happened accidently.  (Back-porting the module code/ makefile  to work with an earlier vintage compiler- circa DSL 3.4)

I needed Knoppix for something and had an I must be dreaming moment when DSL popped up instead.  Tried depmod, that failed because of pathing issues.  Tried insmod atl2.ko and pump.  WHAT NO ERRORS???  ifconfig... BINGO!

So, I put the module in mydsl/modules, and that works, too.
Just a fair warning for those who are reading through this thread: don't mix and match things esp. with the kernel.

fyi, the cloop module (and the rest that are in the initrd - which I'm assuming was not changed/updated) are forced via insmod -f so versioning errors would not show up... though I'm guessing the rest of the modules would probably be ignored (so hardware may be harder to configure unless compiled into the kernel I suppose)
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Just a fair warning ...

Thanks ^thehatsrule^.  

You are correct.  One must use a modified initrd for this useful amateur hack.

I apologize for not making that clear.  But, I am quite nervous that Mr 13 will blow his stack when he learns the ugly details of my little crime.  Even though it is not even my fault. There are several other experimental abominations that I have kept to myself.

By the way, I have doing a reverse frugal boot to test some of my older versions and knoppix based distros.  I start booting from an external USB hard-drive - I selected this one because it yields sustained reads that is nearly exactly the same as the internal Flash drive on the Eee PC - to bootfrom knoppix/knoppix off my external USB DVD/CD ROM.    That way I don't have to copy stuff around so much.

Well I am quite pleased that I tried an old scratched up DSL 2.2 cd.. The desktop and menuing is perfect.  Could this be THE ONE?  (internet works)

Cheers
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One must use a modified initrd for this useful amateur hack.

I apologize for not making that clear.  But, I am quite nervous that Mr 13 will blow his stack when he learns the ugly details of my little crime.  Even though it is not even my fault. There are several other experimental abominations that I have kept to myself.
Well, to have something that would work similarily to what a distro would offer does take a bit more than that (ie modutils etc).  There are many articles out on the web on the subject of a 2.4 to 2.6 kernel transition which may be of interest.

And don't worry, most discussions around here are subject to friendly critique, as harsh as some might seem to be.
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