I use the Option icon225 3G modem almost every day (whenever I am on the move, without wifi coverage), so it is always the first thing to make it work... also on the S101. As posted some time ago, this device works excellent with any derivative of ubuntu, so I expected a fast setup. Well... following the good old How-To posted at www.pharscape.org did not disappoint me... quickly... :) After the install procedure the S101 connected to the net but after some minutes unexpectedly the machine was hard locked... no mouse, keyboard, whatsoever... :( Looked like a nasty module, which froze the tiny EeePC... and it was easy to guess that something was wrong with the hso.ko module, which supposed to make the Option icon225 modem talk to the internet... After some google homework I found out the stock ubuntu 8.10 does already contain the hso.ko module (apparently version 1.2) and I installed v 1.6 Something was dead wrong... :( I discovered, that for some funny reason the original hso.ko module was in .../kernel/drivers/net/usb/ while the newly compiled and installed v 1.6 was put into: .../kernel/drivers/net/wwan/ Interesting... and the v 1.2 loaded and locked down the machine... So I removed the old one and run depmod... started again the HSOconnect program ...

The new S101 is a real beauty... but much more than that... it is a fully functional netbook... and one of them is  mine, since a couple of days... Since I got rid of my 1000H, and the only EeePC left in the house is my trustworthy 901, I "deeecided" to get the new EeePC S101, the black version. It came with Windows preinstalled, but MS did not survive long in my house. After unpacking, I connected my external DVD drive and soon enough ubuntu 8.10 installation screen  was welcoming me from the lcd. I've read the Linux install experiences on the web, so I expected that it will be an cool ride, but man... this process was the easiest in my life... Simply plug and play... Really... Everything works just out of the box. No need to install additional drivers, tweaking the software whatsoever. Wifi, bluetooth, sleep and resume, wide screen... all work just fine... amazing... Seems that the good engineers at Asus put together a very Linux friendly hardware. Big thanks boys! Excellent work! So not much really to talk about the ubuntu installation procedure... :) Otherwise the little machine performs excellent. Around 4 hrs battery life (which is excellent taking into account that ...