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ASUS EEE doesn't have Bluetooth by default, but it has bluetooth packages lying around in default installation. So, I plugged in my Bluetooth USB dongle and changed few parameters. After few minutes, I got my bluetooth connection working with my phone, NXT and Thinkpad.

Because ASUS EEE doesn't have PCMCIA slot, I couldn't use my VIP 3G PCMCICA card to access Internet everywhere. I need that in order to be fully mobile with my ASUS EEE. So, I managed to set up Internet connection using my mobile phone via bluetooth. I just copied the scripts I use with my Thinkpad to reach Internet via mobile phone and it worked! Now, my ASUS EEE become even more mobile :)
If you want to connect your ASUS EEE to Internet via mobile phone, I found nice instructions here. It's typical instructions for connecting to internet via your mobile phone with chat scripts and pppd.

Happy ASUS EEE users ;)

If you didn't know - ASUS EEE has web camera (with Skype software and Skype video working out of the box). With my knowledge of audio/video streaming I gained from streaming HULK events like this one, I tried to set up basic audio/video streaming using ASUS EEE device, just for fun.

First, I had to enable camera (it's enabled only if you use Skype or webcam software) using this command:
echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera

After turning on the camera, typical V4L device appears at /dev/video0. Basically, I used gstreamer to grab and recode audio/video and shout2send gstreamer plugin to forward OGG stream to icecast server (I could use oggfwd too, but gstreamer seemed faster solution). With combination of mobile internet, I got extremely mobile streaming solution using open OGG (Theora/Vorbis) format. It's stil not perfect streaming, because it's only 900 Mhz procesor, but it's usable. I guess I have to tune it more. Probably, I'll write step by step guide for EEE user Wiki about that.

After playing with camera, don't forget to turn off your camera in order to save battery :) :
echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/camera

Actually, /proc/acpi/asus is just interface for asus_acpi module. Using it, you can turn off (or turn on) some devices in order to save battery life of your ASUS EEE. Here is quick oneliner how you can turn off wireless, camera and card reader:

for i in camera cardr wlan; do (echo 0 > /proc/acpi/asus/$i); done

and to turn it on all again:

for i in camera cardr wlan; do (echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/$i); done

If you don't like my quick solutions :), you can see this solution from Avian.

Dobrica told me he has problems with apt-get upgrading his ASUS EEE (Firefox segfaults after upgrade). Anyway, I found the fix on the internet. Solution is actually to remove scim support (it's for Asian languages anyway and we don't use it here). Dobrica said he used another fix: apt-get install eeepc-updatepack-20071126. It seems it's the better one. Anyway, I guess I'm lucky because I didn't had that problem he had.

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