After reading a couple of reviews of other people that wanted to perform the same upgrade as me, from 2GB into 4GB, I’ve finally decided to bet on Kingston, and I bought the KVR800D2S6K2/2G modules.

Now you may be wondering why I didn’t bought 8GB instead of 4GB since the netbook supports them, the reason is plain simple: in my humble opinion they are way too expensive!

Here is a list of Kingston memory upgrades for Asus Eee PC 1201N.

While performing the upgrade I decided to take a couple of photos to illustrate the process.

First I took a couple of screenshots of Gnome’s system monitor before the upgrade.

The two brand new Kingston ram modules that I bought. As you can see in the picture their specifications are: KVR800D2S6K2/2G 2GB PC2-6400 CL6 NON-ECC 200-Pin SODIMM.

The backside of the netbook and a closer look at the memory compartment.

Another photo of it’s backside, after removing the screws from memory compartment, we can see the default memory ram modules: two dimms of 1GB each.

In this photo we can see a comparison of both memory ram modules. At the top we have one of the modules that is installed by default in this netbook, an ASint DDRII 1GB-800, and the new one at the bottom.

Another photo of it’s backside after installing the new memory modules.

To finish the sequence, here is Gnome’s system monitor screenshots after the upgrade.

Because I’m currently using a 64bits version of Ubuntu I didn’t found any kind of problem related with the recognition of the new modules, but from what I’ve read, in 32bits versions there may be problems which require a couple of updates.

As you can see performing the upgrade is a really simple process that takes only a couple of minutes. If after this, you are still with afraid of screwing your netbook here is a video that shows you, once again, how simple it is to upgrade your netbook memory.

With this in mind you only need to download this file which was referenced in this thread on post #134 and execute the commands below. Make sure to remove the NDISWrapper driver before doing this if you have already installed and set it up.

After download, unpack driver:

$ tar xvf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1211.2009.tar.gz
$ cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0010.1211.2009
$ sudo make

Then you need to edit two files:

$ sed -i 's/install: modules/install:/g' ./ieee80211/Makefile
$ sed -i 's/install: modules/install:/g' ./HAL/rtl8192/Makefile

Finally install and load:

$ sudo make install
$ sudo echo "r8192se_pci" >> /etc/modules
$ sudo modprobe r8192se_pci

Your wireless should now be working.

Credits go out to CompMas2 of ubuntuforums.org for the quick answer and to david woo of lauchpad.net for making this driver available.

For those of you who don’t know anything about this netbook yet, below is the list of specs that are commercialized in Portugal (in other countries there are differences in Memory and Storage specs).

Asus Eee PC 1201N Silver

* Display: 12.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixels;
* CPU: 1.6GHz Intel Atom N330 dual core;
* Memory: 2GB DDR2;
* Battery: 6 cells, 8 hours;
* Storage: 250GB HDD + web-based storage;
* Touchpad: Supports multitouch gestures;
* Graphics & chipset: NVIDIA ION (GeForce 9400M);
* I/O: HDMI, VGA, 3 USB 2.0 ports, SD card slot, mic, headphones;

With this new acquisition I was only missing an external monitor and a keyboard to complete my docking station. Knowing this, my girlfriend offered me an HP w2216v monitor, which is really nice, great design, very shiny and it’s colors match perfectly with netbook colors.

HP w2216v

* Display size: 21.6-inch (54.8 cm);
* Display type: TFT LCD active matrix;
* Input terminal: VGA connector;
* Other connectors: 3.5 mm Stereo mini jack input;
* Integrated speakers: 2w per speaker;
* Recommended resolution: 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz;
* Contrast ratio: 1000:1;
* Dynamic Contrast ratio: 3000:1;
* Response time: 5 ms;
* Dimensions HxWxD: 18.9×20.5×11.3 inches;
* Weight Unpacked: 19.8 lbs (9 Kg);

Later I added a Mini Eee PC MK Plus Keyboard to complete the set.

At the moment I’m very happy with all these new gadgets. Unfortunately the only turnoff about this netbook is that by default it brings Windows 7 leaving you without other options, so I had to spend a couple of minutes installing the latest version of Ubuntu. After that everything is working fine, and till now I’m very happy with it.

If you want you can see a couple of photos of my new gadgets here.