What are, except the CPU, the differences between the ASUS EeePC 900 and 900A?  Last year I successfully installed Fedora 9 on a 900 and now I need to install some new ones with F10, but the 900 is not available anymore, so I have to go for the 900A. Are there any caveats (network, wifi, camera) on the 900A for F10? I know the 901 is quite different in several aspects, but I don't know about the 900A.

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 21:22 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > What are, except the CPU, the differences between the ASUS EeePC 900 > > and 900A?  Last year I successfully installed Fedora 9 on a 900 and > > now I need to install some new ones with F10, but the 900 is not > > available anymore, so I have to go for the 900A. > > > > Are there any caveats (network, wifi, camera) on the 900A for F10? > > > > I know the 901 is quite different in several aspects, but I don't > > know about the 900A. > > I'm not sure of the differences between the 900 and the 900a but the > 901 doesn't have wifi out of the box but the driver in rpmfusion works > well. Realtek 802.11n chip?

>>> I'm not sure of the differences between the 900 and the 900a but the >>> 901 doesn't have wifi out of the box but the driver in rpmfusion works >>> well. >> >> Realtek 802.11n chip? > > Something like that. Its something like the rt2860 driver. I think it > has crappy stuff like stuff in /etc That's the one. Supposedly the driver is under a rewrite to be included in the upstream kernel, but I am not aware about the current status.

Peter Robinson wrote: >>>>> I'm not sure of the differences between the 900 and the 900a but the >>>>> 901 doesn't have wifi out of the box but the driver in rpmfusion works >>>>> well. >>>> Realtek 802.11n chip? BTW, is a Ralink chip >>> Something like that. Its something like the rt2860 driver. I think it >>> has crappy stuff like stuff in /etc >> That's the one. >> Supposedly the driver is under a rewrite to be included in the upstream >> kernel, but I am not aware about the current status. > > Its been in a rewrite state for ages with what seems like no real > progress. I read somewhere the USB variant would be done first but > that hasn't seemed to materialise yet. More than half year ago it was supposed to be ready for kernel 2.6.29[1], but since then I took the "easy way" with the akmod from rpmfusion and didn't follow the development.

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2009/3/17 Chris Eveleigh : > On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 10:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > > does the wireless survive a suspend/resume for you?  i'm sure it worked once > (with the 1.7.0 driver on F9) but since then i've always had to reboot to > get the wireless back again - even rmmod/modprobe doesn't recover it. > > I have the same trouble with my EEE 901 with F10. /Andreas

On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 12:49 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Andreas Tunek  wrote: > > 2009/3/17 Chris Eveleigh : > >> On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 10:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> does the wireless survive a suspend/resume for you?  i'm sure it worked once > >> (with the 1.7.0 driver on F9) but since then i've always had to reboot to > >> get the wireless back again - even rmmod/modprobe doesn't recover it. > >> > >> > > > > I have the same trouble with my EEE 901 with F10. > > > > /Andreas > > > > I maintain all the rtxxx0 drivers at RPMFusion. This was reported a HUGE thank you for that! :-D > before and a user came up with a suspend script which worked for him. > Unfortunately, since suspend *never* worked for me on Fedora with or > without a wireless card, I couldn't test the script. But I added the > script to the RPM's. Could you grab the rtxxx0 RPM from RPMFusion's > testing repo and try the suspend script? It may need to be tweaked a > little to work for individual cases. > i'll test this as soon as i can.  hopefully tonight but might be later in the week.  where should i report the results?