On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:00:18AM -0700, Justin Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:39 AM, david<gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > >> 2009/6/30 Norval Watson <norv2001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> Hi y'all, > >>> I want to install a realtime audio distro on my new Asus Eee 901. > >>> I need a 2.6.29 realtime kernel or higher to support the hardware on my Eee. > >>> I have got the 2G RAM (haven't swapped it in yet). > >>> AFAIK, options include: > >>> DebianEeePC http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC > >>> ArchLinux http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901 > >>> Eeebuntu http://www.eeebuntu.org/ > >>> Indamixx USB stick, when it's available, (and it's not free) > >>> > >>> I have been using Debian unstable for some years so I'm most familiar with that. > >>> Any suggestions welcome, particularly regarding optimizing the kernel. > >>> TIA > >>> Norv > >> > >> > >> Debian testing here, 2.6.29.5-rt22, ASUS Mobo (don't remember exatly > >> what model... I am at work now) > >> > >> Optimizing the kernel? ... it depends from your hardware but, apart > >> from binary size, I can not really say if turning off wireless stuffs > >> from kernel config could improve RT performances. I am sure somebody > >> else can comment bettere on this. > > > > I'm slowly turning my wife's old laptop (2.8GHz Celeron, 768MB RAM, > > saddled with older Intel chipset) into a synthesizer/effects box. It > > currently has Ubuntu Studio on it. While I have the wireless antenna > > turned off (we have no wireless network around here), I've never > > disabled the wifi kernel modules or drivers. And it runs along quite > > happily at latencies between 5-10 msec using an external USB audio > > interface ... > > > > I seem to recall that the problem with wifi wasn't the presence of the > > drivers, it was the fact that the system was incessantly trying to make > > a wifi connection. Maybe that's something Network Manager does that > > doing your networking using command line stuff doesn't? > > > > -- > > David > > gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > authenticity, honesty, community > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > Yeah, there is a command line utility that searches for wireless > access points and lists their respective signal strength etc. > (iwlist), and I only run it if I think an access point should be there > and I am not finding it or getting a poor connection. > > It seems like networkmanager runs iwlist or does some equivalent on a > frequent basis (even if it already has a wifi connection), and uses > quite a bit of CPU doing it. I no longer need to worry about this > since switching to debian, where the /etc/network/interfaces config > file plus the ifup/ifdown commands that reference that configuration > have served me just fine. I have an EEE 1000 and I use it constantly with Debian, and have performed with it a good half-dozen times now, and rehearsed and practiced on it many more. I'm very happy with Debian-EEE. I created packages for the RT kernel and relevant drivers for it, and uploaded them here in case anyone wants them: http://restivo.nfshost.com/projects/eee/debs/ I dislike the Network Manager intensely, so I turned it off. I just type "sudo iwlist ra0 scan" when I need to find what's out there. Nowadays I just use a Sierra Wireless USB adapter with the Sprint PCS network instead, and very rarely fire up the wifi anyway. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
