Fedora unusable on Asus eee 701

[Peter Robinson]

>>> >> > *Please* stop posting the particular bugs that affect you to the mailing
>>> >> > list as if they are higher priority than any other bugs.
>>> >> Also I heard a lot of positive feedback when some specific bugs got
>>> >> mentioned on this list, if you believe it is now important you can
>>> >> choose to ignore that thread.
>>> > (I believe you meant 'not' instead of 'now'.) That strategy doesn't really
>>> > work. Ignoring spam that is sent to onesself regularly doesn't stop it from
>>> > being sent. Please don't contribute to the internet's spam problem. I don't
>>> > believe there is any added value in your regular mailings of the list with
>>> > your own bugs.
>>> Don't be so hasty to judge. They should not become frequent list
>>> postings, true, but sometimes they can be a handy "heads up" that can
>>> apply to others.
>>
>> For example, I have started to comment on the bug since I saw it
>> mentioned here (my 701 works).
>>
>> Don
>
> It's is interesing how yours and some other work and some don't work
> with SD card reader.
>
> 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.

There's a couple of linux-kernel mailing list threads that I posted to
the bug report (see around comments 12-15) that details the issue.
There was a specific patch to fix the issue that was made more generic
but I haven't see it go into a mainline kernel yet but the author of
the patch is there, I was going to ping an email to him but haven't
had time to do so.

Peter