Fedora on EEE?

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Fri Oct 31 07:30:44 UTC 2008


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 22:44, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>>> - Xandros (on my Asus EEE, and only because I haven't had time to 
>>>>> find something better; how's Fedora on those?)
>>>> Fedora works great on those. I'm happily running F10 since snap2.
>>>> All I needed was an akmod from rpmfusion (rt2860sta driver) and
>>>> a pm quirk to re-enable screen after resume.
>> Well, it chokes on my WPA.
> 
> Because the driver is the vendor driver, has not been cleaned up for the
> quality standards of the kernel, does not properly implement wireless
> extensions, and will _never_ go upstream because it includes its own
> 802.11 stack.
> 
> Effort should be directed towards the rt2x00 project which is writing
> the correct upstreamable mac80211-based driver for these cards.

I am fully aware of this and from what I saw on the kernel list, even 
Linus is hit by this lack of this driver (he owns an Eee PC 901).
AFAIK, the estimation for a proper driver in the upstream kernel is for 
2.6.29, that should be Fedora 11, next spring.
Until then, the akmod from Rpmfusion seems like the best temporary option.

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