Wi-Fi not working on Asus Eee 1201T or 1201N?

Owners of the Eee 1201N and Eee 1201T might be already aware of the Wi-Fi issue. Unlike most netbooks, where everything works out of the box, mainly due to the fact that the innards of almost all netbooks are same, this is not the case with the Asus Eee 1201T. Wi-Fi doesn’t work out-of-the box. However, we have done the work for you and here are the steps to get the wireless to work:

UPDATE  – Ubuntu 10.04 users – see instructions from this post instead

• First go to this link. Search for “RTL8192SE” on the page and download its Linux version to the Downloads folder.
• Once downloaded, right click on the file and select “Extract here” from the menu
• Rename to folder to something more user-friendly. I named it as rtl
• Fire up the terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal)

Now, type the following commands in the terminal:

1. su
2. cd Downloads
3. cd rtl
4. make
5. make install
6. modprobe r8192se_pci

Voila, Wi-Fi works!

Note – I’m still working to make the GPU work to its full potential (1201T only). Right now, you cannot enable effects – it would give you an error message.

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