Mandriva supports eee
Nicu Buculei
nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Thu Mar 20 17:28:02 UTC 2008
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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