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• Contact: KetilThorgersen

• Make : ASUS
• Model: A9RP

• Website: http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=5&l2=26&l3=294&l4=0&model=1432&modelmenu=1

• S/N: Only needed if you have a Canonical supplied laptop

Current Issues

In order to make this laptop work without too much hassle, bios 228 (the latest at the time of writing) is highly recommended!

Sleep and hibernate does not work with a memory card inserted and mounted in the internal reader.

System Info

bios-version:228
system-manufacturer:ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
system-product-name:A9Rp
system-version:1.0

Hardware details

Notes

Wireless

The wireless is not automatically configured or recognized. It will be supported out of the box from kernel 2.6.22, but until then we will have to install the driver ourselves. (Feel free to try NDiswrapper, but be warned. I locked up my installation beyond repair.) The asus wireless is a variety of the zydas zd1211 and it is possible to make the userspace driver work by modifying it slightly: Open a terminal then Download the driver:

sudo wget http://zd1211.ath.cx/download/zd1211-driver-r85.tgz

Unpack and enter the directory:

sudo tar xfz zd1211-driver-r85.tgz
cd zd1211-driver-r85

To add the asus identfier in the driver

sudo gedit src/zdusb.c

Find the section with the heading zd1211b Add the following line above the others:

 { USB_DEVICE(0x0b05, 0x171b) },

save and close gedit. Then we edit the makefile to tell that it is a zd1211b device we're compiling for

sudo gedit Makefile

Find the line:

# set to 1 for zd1211b
 ZD1211REV_B=0

and change it to

# set to 1 for zd1211b
 ZD1211REV_B=1

save and close

Now its time to compile and install:

sudo make
sudo make install

Now time to make the wireless come up: Try

sudo rmmod zd1211b zd1211rw
sudo modprobe zd1211b

It should now be possible to connect the usual way through network under the systems menu or your favourite wireless app.

scrolling

In order to make the side scrolling work in Feisty you have to manually edit xorg.conf

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Identy the section that begins with: Section "InputDevice"

• Identifier "Configured Mouse"

replace the section with this one:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "1"
EndSection

Press ctrl+alt+backspace and you should have scrolling when X comes back up.

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