I had a time to give a speech at OpenSource Conference in Tokyo

1. OpenSolaris on ASUS
Eee PC for GEEKS:-)
(Using OpenSolaris
2009.6 snv 106+ on
Eee PC as a
quot;GEEKSquot;)
Masafumi Ohta
OpenNSUG / OpenSolaris Users Group
OpenSolaris Core Contributer
2/21/2008

2. Agenda
Introduction
Preparing for using OpenSolaris 2009.6 snv106+ on
Eee PC
OpenSolaris Installation with some tips.
Installing additional Interesting applications
Demonstrating some applications
Appendix:introducing OSUM for student SNS
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3. Introduction
I wrote the article quot;OpenSolaris on Eee PCquot; in the
Feb. issue of “Software Designquot;,I wrote about
OpenSolaris Installation on Eee PCs for
OpenSolaris beginners
I omitted some tips some GEEKS would like to
know,I guess many of YOU GEEKS would have
some complaints to my article
So I would like to introduce some tips(about the
Installation and applications) for YOU GEEKS:-)
For beginners I've uploaded some videos about
how to install to YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/masafumi0515
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4. About Project “OpenSolaris on EeePCquot;
Project quot;OpenSolaris on Eee PCquot; is the world-wide
project in OpenSolaris.org
The founders are Masafumi Ohta,Robert Sohigain of
Sun ERI,and Tim Foster of Sun Ireland
The purpose is expanding OpenSolaris through Eee
PCs – the most famous netbook all over the world
We have a mailing list(eeepc-discuss@opensolaris.org) in
OpenSolaris.org and wiki in
genunix.org(http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/EeeP
C)
Please join our project subscribing to our mailing list:-)
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5. Preparing for Using OpenSolaris
2009.6 snv106+ on Eee PC
Prepare those items for the using OpenSolaris
External USB CD-ROM
It's the easiest choice, almost all CD-ROM units
work well with the Eee PC
USB sticks
Used for making an OpenSolaris LiveUSB for
OS installation and adding extra application
SDHC Card
You can also use SSDs which is used for Linux
or Windows XP for Eee PC.
Choose high-quality and high-speeded SDHC like
TOSHIBA and Panasonic for good to install OpenSolaris
Format SDHC as FAT32 using format tool on the
Windows OS before the installation
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6. Preparing for Using OpenSolaris
2009.6 snv106+ on Eee PC (*cont'd)
Update the latest BIOS
Check the installation mode as 'Finished' in BIOS
menu(in Eee 701 and 900 which are intel-based
Eees)
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7. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*making LiveUSB for Eee PC
You know OpenSolaris.org delivers LiveCD and
LiveUSB iso images in their site
But OpenSolaris LiveCD doesn't have any tools
making LiveUSB and there are no any other tools
making it for OpenSolaris running on Windows and
MacOS (The tools should have quot;installgrubquot; so that
we could boot OpenSolaris from an USB stick.I’ve
heard it is not good only to burn the iso images onto
USB sticks like LiveCD)
So I tried to make it using the account quot;jackquot; in
LiveCD
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8. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*making LiveUSB for Eee PC(*cont'd)
You should upgrade 2GB memory in your Eee for
making LiveUSB
Before making,you should download LiveUSB
image and quot;usbcopyquot; shell script from
OpenSolaris.org with Windows XP on your Eee and
then you should copy them to your USB stick
USB image:http://www.genunix.org
Usbcopy:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/raw/caiman/
slim_source/usr/src/cmd/install-tools/usbcopy
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9. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*making LiveUSB for Eee PC(*cont'd)
Boot your Live CD,and copy two files above to /jack
directory
Plug USB stick for LiveUSB then type quot;usbcopyquot;
Type the usbcopy command;
usbcopy.sh opensolaris-0906-106a-x86.usb
Check my video to see how to make it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa7misLBgU
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10. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*making LiveUSB for Eee PC(*snaps;making LiveUSB)
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11. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*adding new internal ralink rwn driver for 901
Ralink driver for Atom-based Eee have released on
Jan 23rd.but It hasn’t worked well yet.
I now working with Felix Feng,who is making the
ralink driver for it.it is getting better day and day.
It can connect to APs but its signal is weaker than
the one using Windows
I can’t move it from one AP to another APs using
NWAM,that is,when I do it,I can’t get dhcp address.
The workaround is disable nwam and configure it
manually.
NWAM doesn't show serving status,
it remains 0 packets checking rwn properties
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12. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*adding new internal ralink rwn driver for 901(*Cont'd)
It sometimes gets crashed and dumped core
Sometimes I cant get dhcp addresses
You might better wait for fixed one.Felix said it will
be relerased soon.(He now having some test for it)
If you try it,you can download from OpenSolaris.org
website
rwn driver;
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/
wireless/rwn/
How to install;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEkiEtJY_ZI
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13. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*adding new internal ralink rwn driver for 901(*Snaps;Setting wifi)
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14. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*adding new internal ralink rwn driver for 901(*Snaps,rwn Working)
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15. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*updating atge driver for 901
Murayama-san made atge NIC drivers for Eees.
(Thanks a lot,Murayama-san!)
I worked with him to make it.It was a great time...
You can download from his website quot;Free NIC
drivers for Solarisquot;
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
How to install
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7eh9KOEQbPQ
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16. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*updating atge driver for 901(*Cont'd)
Its binaries has debug mode because its release as
beta use.You can see the connection logs in
/var/adm/messages/
If you don't need debug mode,you can rebuild his
driver
First of all,you should add SUNWgcc and related
files using packagemanager.
Rebuilding and updating the driver;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4azuP2cw44
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17. OpenSolaris installation with some tips;
*updating atge driver for 901(*Editing Makefile.config)
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18. Installing additional applications (*Introduction)
I’d like to introduce some interesting apprications
running on OpenSolaris.
It works good though some of apprications works
partly on Eees.
But we OpenSolaris user must be happy to use
that:-)
It is supposed to use them on Atom-based Eees like
901,because they take lots of resources in
OpenSolaris.
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19. Installing additional applications
(*Google Gadgets)
I heard from Italian Friend Google Gadget working
well on OpenSolaris.Alfred Peng blogged about it.
http://blogs.sun.com/pengyang/entry/google_gad
gets_on_opensolaris
I tried to build it but it needs something libraries and
customized Firefox for it and more it took so much
time to build (almost two days and I failed to build
because of lacking spaces of SSD memories for
building:-()
So I asked for him to give the binaries,he kindly to
gave them to me:-)
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20. Installing additional applications
(*Google Gadgets (*Cont'd))
He gave three files for it:
SUNWlibstdcxx4,SUNWfirefox(Customized Firefox)
and SFEgoogle-gadgets
SFEgoogle-gadgets needs related pkg “SUNWcurlquot;
I had to remove SUNWfirefox-l10n-ja-JP,I guess
SUNWfirefox(Customized) can work only in an
English environment.
First I had to remove old SUNWFirefox using “pkg
uninstall -r” then Installed customized
SUNWFirefox using pkgadd.
And then installed SUNWlibstdcxx4 and SFEgoogle
gadgets on my Eee 901
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21. Installing additional applications
(*Google Gadgets (*Cont'd))
I've uploaded using quot;Google Gadgetsquot; on Eee 901
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jhQoPK2Dq0
Now they hasn't been delivered by Alfred, because
he tried to build it with his friends..
So,should I asked him to deliver you all?
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22. Installing additional applications
(*Google Gadgets (*Snaps;working Google Gadgets on my Eee 901))
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23. Installing additional applications
(*Songbird)
Alfred told me another intersting applications for
Eee 901
He likes the project “Songbird” – Free Media Player
http://getsongbird.com/
In OpenSolaris you should get MP3 codec and set /
usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/plugins/ for using songbird.
Fluendo MP3 Codec;
http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-
mp3-decoder/
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24. Installing additional applications
(*Songbird(*cont’d))
If you want to use Songbird as a Flash player,you
should install Adobe Flash Player to
$LIBDIR/plugins and $LIBDIR/components/
If you want to use Songbird in the environment
running Google Gadgets,you should use the
package from the songbird community.
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/index.php?
title=Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Build
s&highlight=contributed+build
SUNWsongbird relates SUNWfirefox so installing
SUNWsongbird removes Customized
SUNWFirefox:-(
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25. Installing additional applications
(*Songbird(*snap as music player))
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26. Installing additional applications
(*Songbird(*snap as FLV video player))
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27. Installing additional applications
(*Firefox ubiquity)
Alfred introduced Firefox ubiquity as an
demonstrations at Developer Summit in Tokyo
You know it is addon for Firefox
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-
ubiquity/
Latest beta we can input Japanese.
https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/ubiquity-latest-
beta.xpi
I've uploaded the video using ubiquity on my Eee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0vavduhs8
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28. Installing additional applications
(*Firefox Ubiquity(*snap))
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29. Installing additional applications
(*Justplayer PPPdialer)
Yasushi Taki,who is the president of
Justplayer,contributes some packages for
OpenSolaris users:
http://kohju.justplayer.com/aboutme.html
He made PPPdialer for those who would like to use
their OpenSolaris on 3G networks:
http://dist.justplayer.com/JPCPKGLABO/i386/5.1
1/JPCpppdialer-
1.0beta,REV=2009.02.17J06.pkg.gz
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30. Installing additional applications
(*Justplayer PPPdialer(*cont’d))
Before installing PPPdialer,We should install
chototsu-san's usbser and usbsacm patches
Usbser patches,it is for when using usb-serial on
multi-cored
CPU;http://chototsumoushinp.dip.jp/solaris/usbse
r.tar.bz2
Usbsacm patches;it is for using modem with hot-
plugging;http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/chototsu_mous
hinp/42923584.html
You should replace old ones for patched ones.
On Eee 901,I can't use hotplug and have to add
usbsacm entry for my modem(emobile D02HW)
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31. Installing additional applications
(*Justplayer PPPdialer(*cont’d))
In Eees,I have to unplumb rwn and atge
drivers,before using PPP network(I made ip-up and
ip-down scripts for it I now asking for taki-san to add
them to PPPdialer package.
Something is wrong in using NWAM with rwn
driver...it often get panic..I guess rwn would be
wrong...hmm..I have to investigate..
I have upload the video how pppdialer works on my
Eee 901.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ANkmW58pEWY
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32. Installing additional applications
(*Justplayer PPPdialer(*snap))
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33. Installing additional applications
(*Secondlife on OpenSolaris )
I tried to use Secondlife viewer on my Eee 901
Dana-san builds the SL viewer binaries for
OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/daner/entry/new_build_of_sl
_1
It can't use voice-chat
Streaming sounds doesn't work on my Eee 901
Something wrong are there so I now asking
Dana-san to fix them.
Environment Sounds like woods burning works
good
I haven't tried any Streaming videos on the viewer.
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34. Installing additional Interesting applications
(*Secondlife on OpenSolaris (*cont’d))
It crashed sometimes...it is not fixable for Eee 901.
I have to configure customized setting for such a
poor-powered PC for Secondlife(I have to edit multi-
core CPU setting and view settings using
settings.xml)
I can’t type some Japanese in the viewer..it is only
for English...
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35. Installing additional applications
(*Secondlife for OpenSolaris (*snap))
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36. Installing additional applications
(*Secondlife for OpenSolaris(*snap(setting to use multi-core CPU in SL Viewer))
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37. Installing additional applications
(*Secondlife for OpenSolaris(*snap(Setting Graphics for SL viewer))
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38. Demonstrating some applications
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39. Conclusion
rwn driver haven't worked well yet,I hope it will be
fixed soon...
I asked lots of thing to Alfred...Daner...and many
many Sun's employee using the comments in their
blog...they kindly reply to me...Thanks again a lot!
I hope many of you GEEKS would use OpenSolaris
more and more:-)and if you have any
questions,please don't hesitate to ask me and Sun's
engineers through mailing lists and so on.
HOPE YOU ENJOY WITH OPENSOLARIS
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40. Thank you!
Masafumi Ohta
OpenNSUG / OpenSolaris User Group
/OpenSolaris Core Contributer
masafumi.ohta@gmail.com
http://www.masafumi-ohta.blogspot.com
You can see the latest information about Eee or something quot;Netbookquot;
“open” artwork and icons by chandan:
http://blogs.sun.com/chandan