The "intellibook" netbook contains a rtl8192se pci network chip that is not currently included in the android-x86 builds. I could not get a complete self-build image to work so I decided to add the neccessary drivers to the existing release from 20120101. This has the added benefit that the installation contains the google apps, which are not included in the source download. The image can be downloaded from http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20120101 (android-x86-4.0-asus_laptop-20120101.iso).
Extract the iso image and the contained squashfs image and mount the contained filesystem image as a loopback device.
$ bsdtar -C android-image -xf android-x86-4.0-asus_laptop-20120101.iso
$ cd android-image
$ unsquashfs system.sfs
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/iso
$ sudo mount ./squashfs-root/system.img /mnt/iso -o loop