Re: Asus EeePC

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 01:45 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Anyone used one of these things yet? I'm curious whether NetworkManager
> 0.6.5 could be easily made to work on it. It runs Xandros, with some
> sort of custom IceWM for a Window manager. Someone I know bought one and
> wants me to get them on a WPA-Enterprise network... just looking for the
> easiest path.
> 
>> I've seen/used one with a Fedora 8 install on it
>> (reformatted/reinstalled of course) and NM works there.  One issue is
>> that neither wired nor wireless card is yet supported by upstream
>> in-kernel drivers.  The wired card driver (atl2 I think?) is in the
>> process of being upstreamed, and the ath5k driver doesn't yet support
>> PCI-E which is the Atheros part's connection method on the EeePC.
> 
>> Out of the box, I'd imagine NM would work presuming a sufficient D-Bus
>> version was installed, the wireless driver supports WEXT correctly, and
>> there was a place to put a notification area (or you run
>> knetworkmanager).

Well, I'll try to take a good look at this thing when I get it. Maybe
the information can be of help in some way.

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