Interested in Fedora on Smaller Machines?

[Warren Togami]

jeff wrote:
> 
> The Eee 901 and 1000 use a different wifi chip. I haven't seen anything 
> support it other than this from ralink:
> 
> http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2 
> 
> 
> There is a small blob in there, but it doesn't appear to actually get 
> loaded so  it may not be needed. I haven't heard of any patches for this 
> heading upstream yet.
> 

I have a EEEPC 901.  Mostly using it for thin client development where 
it is proving to be extremely useful, but it would be nice to get 100% 
Fedora running on this in portable mode.

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429
There is some discussion here of some patch to make it build and work on 
Fedora.

I hear vague mention that somebody is working on something to get this 
chipset supported upstream but I have no idea where or who.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com