On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:39 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
I got myself an Eeepc to play around with and I'd love to get
Fedora
running on it. Issues that I'm aware of:
- Ethernet driver. Controller is an Attansic Tech L2 100Mbit Ethernet
Adapter (rev a0) (0200: 1969:2048). This uses the atl2 driver. Anyone
have any ideas on the chances of this going upstream? Interestingly I
see this in some of the 2.0.3 files:
* Copyright(c) 2007 Chris Snook <csnook(a)redhat.com>
Chris posted patches upstream on netdev a few weeks ago. It's
happening, though I forget if the driver had to go through another
revision or what. Hopefully will hit 2.6.25, though it's not in
garzik's netdev-2.6.25 yet so it might not.
- Wireless driver. Controller is an Atheros AR5007EG 802.11 b/g
Wireless PCI Express Adapter. (168c:001c rev 01). Distributed
versions appears to use the madwifi drivers. Sounds like ath5k is the
way forward though.
ath5k is definitely the way forward. madwifi will _never_ get upstream
(binary HAL, uses a different 802.11 stack). Unfortunately, ath5k
doesn't yet support PCI-E, which is being worked on. So people will
have to keep installing madwifi for the time being.
Dan
- Flash drive. Want to minimize writes. One attempt (eeedora) uses
the
ext2 filesystem rather than ext3. Does that help? Are there things to
take from stateless projects for minimizing writes to /var?
other stuff?
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