[Pardus-devel] Support for Asus Eee in 2008

[tuxedup at tuxedup.greenisp.org]

Hello all/ Merhaba herkese,

I am wondering about the release of Pardus 2008 and it's support for the Asus Eee.

With 2008 using a newer kernel can we replace the current atl2 package with the
one driver maintained by Red Hat?  The current driver does not support newer
kernels, however the driver maintained by Red Hat supports the latest kernels. 
It is currently included in the Fedora 8 kernel so I am going to pressume that
it is stable enough for desktop usage.

The driver can be found here;

http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/

Also what is the status of the Madwifi driver support for the wireless chipset
used in the Asus Eee?  I know there is a patch that allows it to work which is
what I currently use.  Whether this patch prevents support for other devices
working I do not know, but there must be a way around this given that Mandriva
2008.1 ships with support for the Asus Eee out of the box.

On a side note would it be possible to include the Ucview drivers in 2008 as
these are required for the webcam (I do not think it works with the 2007 kernel).

It would be nice if 2008 was released with good support for the Asus Eee, as it
takes a little bit of work to have it functioning correctly.  If we can have
good support we can at least compete with Mandriva for out of the box Eee support.

What do you think?

Michael.