Meego on HP Mini 100e

José Ricardo de Olveira Damico

• damico@infoserver.com.br
• http://dcon.com.br (blog)
• @josedamico

1. Installation

1.1 Download the Meego 1.2 image: http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/releases/1.2.0/images/meego-netbook-ia32

1.2 Burn a usb image in your pendrive (with unetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

1.3 Prepare the target machine to boot over USB

1.4 Plug the usb pendrive

1.5 At menu choose install

1.6 The installation will take about 18 minutes

1.7 Reboot the machine

2. WiFi driver installation

2.1 Copy the rtl8192se_pci (http://dcon.com.br/drivers/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz) driver to pendrive

2.2 Connect the netbook to a wired network with Internet access

2.3 Install make gcc kernel-headers kernel-dev rfkill

# su (password: meego)
# zypper in make gcc kernel-headers kernel-dev

2.4 Copy the rtl8192se_pci driver from pendrive to your netbook

2.5 Uncompress rtl8192se_pci driver into /home/meego folder

2.6 Enter in the rtl8192se_pci driver folder

2.7 Run the following commands:

# make
# make install

2.9 Load the rtl8192se_pci module:

# modprobe rtl8192se_pci

2.10 Check if module was loaded:

# lsmod

2.11 Activate the rf:

# rfkill unblock all

2.12 Remove the hp_wmi module to avoid conflict with rtl8192se_pci:

# rmmod hp_wmi

2.13 Optional: add hp_wmi module to modules blacklist

# echo "blacklist hp_wi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

2.14 Reboot the netbook

2.15 Test the wifi (the key fn f12 should enable/disable RF)

3. Test/Enable Flash plugin

3.1 Open the browser, check if flash is running, if not, download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

# rpm -Uvh flash-plugin-10.3.181.26-release.i386.rpm

3.2 Create a symbolic link to chromium browser:

# ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/libflashplayer.so

3.3 Close all browsers instances and restart Chromium.