Jonathan Dieter wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 18:05 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
This is why I am curious why (if) Eee PC is not supported by Fedora
out-of-the box. As I understand from the linked article, Mandriva works
OOTB on Eee PC, only with some minor issues. It is not the same with Fedora?
[snip]
FWIW, I have an Eee PC, so I'll try to answer this:
When I first got the Eee PC, none of its network interfaces were
supported by Fedora. I needed both the atl2 driver for the wired
network and madwifi for the wireless.
As the Eee PC doesn't have a CD drive, that left no easy way to get it
installed. In the end, I downloaded and installed Eeedora, and then
reverted any changed packages back to Fedora (bringing me back to a
standard Fedora install).
But now with the livecd-iso-to-disk helping to create a bootable USB
stick I expect this in not such a hassle, right?
I also went back to Gnome (mainly because it's familiar), set up a swap
partition for hibernation (setting sys.vm.swappiness to 0 so it doesn't
swap unless absolutely necessary), and installed compiz-fusion. It
works great for me, and I've had no problems using it to connect at
various miscellaneous hotspots.
ATM the only non-Fedora bits I have on it are the patched madwifi driver
for wireless and the asus_acpi_eee driver so the hotkeys work. The atl2
wired driver is now included in the latest Fedora kernels.
So if I understand correctly, the main remaining problem is the madwifi
driver, for which we can't do much about and the rest is pretty smooth.
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