It’s finally arrived after a whole week. My black Eee PC 1000H. I have purchased online at AUD$655 with 2GB RAM incl. postage. I selected a shop offers of a ASUS 802.11n wireless router at $45 (rrp $120+), too.
Booted into XPH once and decided to wipe the whole HDD. No XP recovery then, who cares!? 
Created Live CD image on USB pendrive and on the gnome desktop. Used livecd-inst-disk to install F9 on it. Since network card is not detected, google’d rt2860 chipset rpms:
- rt2860-1.7.0-2.lvn9.noarch.rpm
- kmod-rt2860-1.7.0-5.lvn9.2.i686.rpm
- kmod-rt2860-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-1.7.0-5.lvn9.2.i686.rpm
Started rpm -Uvh them, and finally need to get these installed in advance:
- kernel-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
- kernel-devel-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
- kernel-headers-2.5.26.5-45.fc9.i686.rpm
Done? The story hasn’t been finished yet…
Let’s do a yum update, omg, dependency conflicts on this *Fedora 9 GA Live CD*. Plugged in a supposed-broken USB external DVD drive and install from DVD. It does broke down once during installation. I take out the disc and cleaned it with my T-shirt.
I redo the 6 rpms above and network connection is functioning. It could yum update smoothly. Now I have sound (worked out box), LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB ext storage (worked out of box),
Will test more w/ built-in webcam and mplayer playback later.
In short, though it’s bootable from USB pendrive, it’s recommended to have ext dvd drive. Have network card rpm handy is also extremely important.
Tags: 1000h, 10″, asus, config, eeepc, fedora, install, kernel, Linux, rpm, rt2860, setup, update., wireless, wlan, yum