[Pardus-devel] Support for Asus Eee in 2008

[Guillaume Dualé]

Hi there,
just a little link to my website, where I have described some test about 
  AsusEEE and Pardus.

http://www.otasc.org/tuts_linux/eee/index.html

See you.
Guillaume.
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tuxedup at tuxedup.greenisp.org wrote:
> Quoting Ekin MeroÄŸlu <ekin at pardus.org.tr>:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Ahh fantastic, I did not realise.  I have not had chance to look at the status
> of devel so I was not aware of this.
> 
>>> 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... 
> 
> Sorry I made a mistake there, Ucview is the camera application included in the
> stock Xandros install on the Eee to take shots with etc.  The driver is Unicap
> (is ths included in the repos already?  I was not able to find it).
> 
> http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm
> http://unicap-imaging.org/index.htm
> 
>>> 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..
> 
> The other bits like having the Fn keys working and having Suspend resume working
> are all detailed here;
> 
> http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu
> 
> The asus acpi packages used with the eee allow the system to report an accurate
> battery state and condition as well as enabling the fn keys.
> 
> The asus acpi is found here,
> 
> http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/ASUS_ACPI_071126.rar
> 
> Hopefully this will provide a bit more on what I mentioned, sorry about my
> previous error.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Michael Austin (Tuxedup)
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