[CDBUG-talk] Asus Eee

[Jonathan Franks]

James,

There was a post on misc@ today that seemed to indicate that the
OpenBSD ath(4) driver might support the card.

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-11/1248.html

Though I obviously can't confirm this.

Anyhow I thought of you when I saw it.

-Jonathan


On Nov 11, 2007 5:59 PM, James L. Lauser <james at jlauser.net> wrote:
> Hi all.  I picked up an Asus EeePC 701.  My intention was to put FreeBSD
> on it, but I ran into some issues with networking.  Apparently there is
> a beta driver for the wired NIC, but the wireless NIC is what I was
> really trying to get working.  It's an Atheros card, but apparently the
> version of the chipset is not supported by the ath driver, even in 7.0.
>
> Right now I have it running Ubuntu Linux, until I hear something about
> someone else getting it working under FreeBSD, at which point I will
> probably switch back.
>
> It's a pretty neat machine, and I'll be bringing it to the next meeting,
> if anyone's interested.
>
> --
>
> --  James L. Lauser
>     james at jlauser.net
>     Owner, jlauser.net Hosting Services
>     http://hosting.jlauser.net/
>
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