Fedora unusable on Asus eee 701

[Don Harper]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:35:12PM +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote to To Development discussions related to Fedora:
> It's is interesing how yours and some other work and some don't work
> with SD card reader.

I understand that there was a change to the 701 somewhere along the
line.  My serial number starts with 7C.  My model is eeePc4G-W011.

There appears to be some slight differences between the sub-releases.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=11180
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=13560

Don


> I bought mine over six months ago and has SD card for similar time so
> I thought that it could be a hardware error on my part but after I
> talked with a friend of mine who bought his eee and 8BG sd card few
> weeks ago and has issues with installing Fedora 10 on it (same issues
> as described before) I concluded that it probably isn't a hardware bug
> on my eee.

> That friend has since installed Ubuntu (netbook remix edition) on SD
> card and it is working for him. Ununtu-Fedora 1:0 :(

> I'm not sure which kernel is ubuntu running and if there are some
> custom kernel partches... but if you are interested I can look into
> that.

> Cheers,
> Valent.
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