2026-09-16 13:34 UTC
My favourite local computer scavenger found a new toy for me: original eeePC 900. I don't think I've held one in my hands in the last 15 years.
The laptop had a broken Windows 7 install on it, but it is too underpowered for this. We're boasting a single-core Celeron M running at 900 MHz, with 2 GB of RAM (upgraded from 1 GB), and Intel 910GM instead of a GPU. I wish it as eeePC 900a with Intel Atom; then I wouldn't need Spectre mitigations.
NetBSD installs well on it, but doesn't find WiFi out of the box (maybe it is turned off in the BIOS, I didn't check)
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@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 2026-09-16 13:44
NetBSD 11 for i386 installed and booted on this eeePC 900 without an issue. As I expected, WiFi was turned off in the BIOS settings; I flipped it on, and the WiFi was detected by the OS. The graphic acceleration works, and it works pretty well - glxgears run smoothly. I'm currently installing some applications to try them out; sadly, the newest Firefox available for it in the packages is v52, which doesn't load many sites well, but there's Midori with webkit that might work better. The CPU has SSE2, so I expect most of the packages from pkgsrc would work even if I just grab the binaries.