[Pardus-devel] Support for Asus Eee in 2008

[Ekin Meroğlu]

Hi;

Thursday 17 April 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/

Pardus-devel and 2008 repos include linux kernel 2.6.24.4 and atl2-2.0.4 (from 
csnook's branch) at the moment - weekly developer CDs [1] contain both.

> 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.

The patched madwifi driver will be a seperate package, as the patched 
atheros-HAL (thus the new package) has serious performance issues with some 
older cards/chipsets. 

> 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).

Thanks for the tip, we'll try to include it - I have no information about the 
driver though... 

> 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.

I think most of the needed work has been done, we'll improve it till the 
release..

Thanks... 

[1]
ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/weekly
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