***The Official Asus Eee PC Thread***

gazza0371 said:
No tweaking required. Just select "WPA" when setting up the wireless connection and enter the passphrase. That's all I had to do, and my wireless AP (Linksys WAG300N) is definitely setup for WPA2-PSK (AES).
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Just let you know that your network is actually working on both WPA and WPA2 in case you werent aware - effectively you are on WPA:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10458660&postcount=3

Im unsure if the Asus eeePC does support WPA2, but only WPA at the moment...



OK did some delving and it seems it contains an Atheros AR5BXB63 PCIe card and looking at the manus site it only supports WEP :eek:

Atheros said:
Hardware Security - AES, TKIP, WEP
Quality of Service - 802.11e (draft)
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AFAIK WPA was only introduced as part of the 802.11i amendment...

Might have mis-read but cant find an easy answer to this as I dont have a eeePC to test...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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gazza0371 said:
No tweaking required. Just select "WPA" when setting up the wireless connection and enter the passphrase. That's all I had to do, and my wireless AP (Linksys WAG300N) is definitely setup for WPA2-PSK (AES).
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Just let you know that your network is actually working on both WPA and WPA2 in case you werent aware - effectively you are on WPA:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10458660&postcount=3

Im unsure if the Asus eeePC does support WPA2, but only WPA at the moment - best way to find out is to remove TKIP support on the router...

OK did some delving and it seems it contains an Atheros AR5BXB63 PCIe card and looking at the manus site it only supports WEP :eek:

Atheros said:
Hardware Security - AES, TKIP, WEP
Quality of Service - 802.11e (draft)
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AFAIK WPA/WPA2 was only introduced as part of the 802.11i amendment...

Might have mis-read but cant find an easy answer to this as I dont have a eeePC to test...



EDIT: Actually Ill shut-up as I missed this bit :p
Atheros said:
Compliant with IEEE 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11d and 802.11i standards
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So it must support WPA2...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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ps3ud0 said:
Just let you know that your network is actually working on both WPA and WPA2 in case you werent aware - effectively you are on WPA:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10458660&postcount=3

Im unsure if the Asus eeePC does support WPA2, but only WPA at the moment...


OK did some delving and it seems it contains an Atheros AR5BXB63 PCIe card and looking at the manus site it only supports WEP :eek:


AFAIK WPA was only introduced as part of the 802.11i amendment...

Might have mis-read but cant find an easy answer to this as I dont have a eeePC to test...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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AFAIK WP9A and WPA2 is supported through software rather than hardware (hence XP patch that allows WPA support regardless of card - but I'm no Linux geek so I'll leave that to the people in the know) , and the wireless setup for the EEE certainly allows you to select WPA, so as far as I can tell there is no limitation for the Atheros card supporting WPA.

I'll need to check my AP setup as it would surprise me that it would allow security to downgrade from WPA2 to WPA and allow connection.

Anyhow, I guess the point is that I can connect my EEE to an AP configured as WPA2-PSK (AES) - whether that is just my AP I don't honestly know


EDIT: just saw your edit - it works so we're all good. Must admit that WPA support was a question that crossed my mind before I bought the EEE, but in the end I thought what the heck...
 
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Psypher5 said:
i use wpa2 at uni in my room and at home now im on wep, both work fine :)
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Always easier to answer when you got one - bloody hard to find a reliable source for confirmation when I was looking...

gazza0371 said:
AFAIK WP9A and WPA2 is supported through software rather than hardware (hence XP patch that allows WPA support regardless of card - but I'm no Linux geek so I'll leave that to the people in the know) , and the wireless setup for the EEE certainly allows you to select WPA, so as far as I can tell there is no limitation for the Atheros card supporting WPA.

I'll need to check my AP setup as it would surprise me that it would allow security to downgrade from WPA2 to WPA and allow connection.

Anyhow, I guess the point is that I can connect my EEE to an AP configured as WPA2-PSK (AES) - whether that is just my AP I don't honestly know
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Cheers didnt know about the software 'fix' just did some hunting on the hardware...

TKIP definitely allows you to setup a WPA connection rather than WPA2 IME - I guess it effectively 'relaxes' the security requirements for that connection. When I removed TKIP support my sisters work laptop stopped working and when I eventually added it back on I noticed it was only connecting as WPA not WPA2...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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ps3ud0 said:
Always easier to answer when you got one - bloody hard to find a reliable source for confirmation when I was looking...


Cheers didnt know about the software 'fix' just did some hunting on the hardware...

TKIP definitely allows you to setup a WPA connection rather than WPA2 IME - I guess it effectively 'relaxes' the security requirements for that connection. When I removed TKIP support my sisters work laptop stopped working and when I eventually added it back on I noticed it was only connecting as WPA not WPA2...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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I'll have to get a network monitor and check out what it is doing - see whether it is 'relaxing' back to WPA. That's the thing with wireless - you think it is more secure until someone comes along and shows you it isn't as good as you think (i.e. WEP = wired equivalent privacy...yeah, right!)
 
Psypher5 said:
obviously not amazingly :P

hl2/1 games run a bit iffy 15-30 fps i think? Apparently with 2gb of ram and running at 900mhz they are better.

however the low fps on a small screen mean you dont notice the framerate drop as much as you would expect.

stalker ive only heared of running, both on here and eee, i havent been on eee since before mas really so havent looked into that one yet.
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for somat that small and cheap its preety good.
 
I just use the stock BIOS and setfsb when I need 900MHz...

I've had hellgate london installed on mine and it gets 6-20fps :S doesn't seem to matter what quality settings so I'm thinking the CPU is holding it back, tho as it uses shared system memory for graphics I'd have thought that would be the major bottleneck.
 
use more ram, im sure eeeuser someone said more ram for hellgate made it work fine.

Ubdated bios via usb flash drive just, 900mhz and toasty :) All is working. Topping more than 60 degrees though.
 
Psypher5 said:
use more ram, im sure eeeuser someone said more ram for hellgate made it work fine.

Ubdated bios via usb flash drive just, 900mhz and toasty :) All is working. Topping more than 60 degrees though.
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Hi,

Did you have any problems installing XP? Just tried mine from a usb DVD-ROM drive and it installed fine but seems to fail when doing one of the security updates from windows update (it said there were 91 in total and my XP disk was SP2!)...the machine just freezes. It downloaded a fair few of them before this happened. Ithought it might be one particular update so i disabled a few trying to skip the problem but it seems to freeze when trying to do any windows update?? Also it seems very very slow when installing software. I tried installing WMP11 and after 10 minutes switched it off as it seemed to have stopped at 25%? Standard 512Mb installed but that should be fine for XP and i am also using a swap file too.

Cheers,
Hugest
 
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There are speakers there, but I think it was mostly to save money - they already blamed the screen for the initial increase in price.

Everyone should head over to the eeeuser wiki and install beryl - it makes everything look so much better.
 
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