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Hi Cammy, first of all welcome on AROS Exec, I often read messages from you on other Amiga community sites and I'm really pleased by your coming here. Thanks also for supporting Icaros in your signature. The system you are proposing is really interesting. Unluckily, I think that for practical reasons we should go for the Intel road instead, because one of the most critical issues about AROS is driver development. The Atom platform is already half supported thanks to ClusterUK's efforts on the iMica: the system boots fine on EeePCs/Aspire Ones and clones, and there are good chances to get network, video and audio supported in the near future. Adding development job, to support another platform, would be probably overkill. OTOH, I think that netbooks really are the new Amiga 1200s. They are cheap, little underpowered but substantially equal each other, so they really constitute a 'platform' in the common meaning of the word. And AROS should support it.
Posted on: 2009/10/18 16:27
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The price is good, indeed. Quote:
More Information about the used Chipset is needed to tell, if its possible to make AROS Drivers for it. Quote:
Drivers are part of the aros build system. Anything there is writte in C/C++ It may not be impossible to write a driver in E but I think a lot of infra structure code would have to be written, before you can start writing drivers in E.
Posted on: 2009/10/18 13:50
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That would be a very cool laptop. I like the style and even the yellow color. I wonder if they could be branded with the word AROS on it and using the AROS font. I am trying to learn E (PortablE) too but I doubt it can be used to write drivers right now. I think the C Language is the defacto standard for drivers and low level hardware programming. I could be wrong however. How is your E programming going? Are you getting good results in AROS?
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How about an AROS Netbook? I love the idea of a tiny little computer I really can take anywhere (laptops are too bulky for me). I have been checking them out for a while, and I have found a model which I would love to see gain full AROS support. It's a computer that uses a VIA CPU and chipset instead of Intel. The most attractive thing is we can buy these brand new, single or in bulk lots. They're unbranded and come with no OS pre-installed, so we can call them whatever we want and stick AROS and Ubuntu on them. It's just my dream anyway, and I noticed you guys started a topic about it and thought I'd throw my idea out there for consideration or ridicule.
Here's a direct link to the wholesaler in China where we can get these cute little Netbooks at unbeatable prices -http://www.china-wholesale-supplier.com/colorful-102-inch-super-netbook-with-16g-cpu-1gb-ram160gb-hdd-wifi-mini075_p10657.html The full specs are on the page. It uses the S3G Unichrome Pro II graphics chip, which there is plenty of documentation for and open source drivers for Linux available. I'm learning to code in AmigaE, I was wondering if this would be of any use in writing drivers for AROS, or is that just for C coders?
Posted on: 2009/10/18 12:55
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Perhaps try the iMica device driver. It is RTL8168 and rtl8111D, as that is used in the iMica skt775 board for gigabit speed.
Posted on: 2009/9/6 8:58
Edited by clusteruk on 2009/9/6 9:20:28
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Maybe. At the current stage, anyway, it doesn't work. kalamatee!!! help!!!
Posted on: 2009/9/5 14:24
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Yes it installs and runs fine from the hard drive. :) @paolone Thanks for all of your hard work. Gave me the incentive to wipe the drive on my aspireone and install icaros :) Also I'm not sure but isn't the rtl8101 that's on the aspireone under the rtl8168 class? Maybe just an update to the driver is needed?
Posted on: 2009/9/5 12:52
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I have to free some space on the HDD first.
Posted on: 2009/9/5 11:43
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@paolone
Quote: Ahr... hemmm! Hey!!! This is really cool news!!!  Have you tried to install Icaros to HD yet?
Posted on: 2009/9/5 9:15
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the rtl8168 network adapter is supported, the problem is that there's no rtl8168 adapter in my Aspire One.
Posted on: 2009/9/5 7:33
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