For a year and a half I have an Asus EEE 701. At first it was an interesting toy. I was testing how far I could go, and I marveled at the way in which GNU / Linux had been integrated into a netbook so little resources. Since I have the MacBook, just use it, because I realized it was not a portable laptop to do the functions.

Yes, well as toy, but it is difficult to write in it. The screen is tiny. The hard drive is a joke (Where I go with 4 GB). And I can not install programs on a whim (things of the repositories).

Although I have yet to install any version of Debian or Ubuntu adapted to the Asus EEE, even expand the RAM and even with a storage capacity SD card, an d elos problems I encountered is that in my new house just captures wireless networks . What does not capture well the wifi? Then I realized I did not detect the networks that can not connect, ie WAP.

The solution had been found for me: Computer Guard. All you have to do is start the Asus EEE, enter in the “Full Desktop”, open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install atheros-swan-modules-2.6.21.4-eeepc

In the source from which it took recommend opening Synaptic, I like more the console. You can then return to Easy Mode and return to the network interface. Sufficient to update the list of wifi networks found.