F7 on EeePC : how to connect??

[Chris Snook]

Beartooth wrote:
> 
>    I have what I think is one of the earliest EeePCs; a label on the back 
> says ASUS 701 -- model number??
> 
>    After a lot of trouble, I got it to triple-boot Puppy, Eeedora, and 
> Fedora 8, two of them from geek sticks. Then when I tried using them all, 
> I soon found that for anyone with large trifocal fingers and arthritic 
> eyeballs, about its only worthwhile use would be sitting in waiting 
> rooms. 
> 
>    So I fitted it and its peripheral paraphernalia into a suitable 
> receptacle, and kept that handy. But it happened that I had no occasion 
> to use it for several weeks.
> 
>    When I did, the battery had gone dead, just sitting there. 
> 
>     Once I got it usable at all again, two of the three boots were 
> unusable, and the other was my least favorite.
> 
>    Yesterday I installed Fedora 7, from a live CD in an external USB 
> drive -- twice. After the second install, which wouldn't boot, I tried 
> booting it with the puppy stick inserted -- and it booted, but to Fedora. 
> 
>    But it can't seem to find the ethernet cable which is plugged right 
> into it. (Come to think of it, anaconda never asked me its usual routine 
> questions about connecting.)
> 
>    How do I get the fool thing to connect??
> 

F8 updates have the atl2 NIC driver, and it's in all F9 kernels.  Or you 
can build it yourself from here:

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

-- Chris