F8 drivers for ASUS EeePC??

[Rahul Sundaram]

Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> 	Having bought an ASUS EeePC (4 GB version), I soon discovered its 
> native OS, Xandros, far more Windowy than I could stomach. So I tried 
> several others, and had various troubles.
> 
> 	Having eventually discovered the Redhat Magazine discussion, 
> entitled "Fedora + Eee PC = Eeedora" -- which is at http://
> www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/14/fedora-eee-pc-eeedora/#comment-55444 -- 
> I of course tried F8.
> 
> 	At present both F8 and Puppy 3.01eee are installed, booting, and 
> running; but only the Puppy (from a USB stick, fwiw) can connect to the 
> Net. Fedora fails, both wirelessly and with an ethernet cable.
> 
> 	To judge from much discussion of these and other attempts, the 
> likeliest problem seems to be drivers, for eth0 and ath0.
> 
> 	Compiling is beyond me. Does anyone know if any pre-compiled 
> drivers for F8 for this machine are available anywhere?

Have you tried eeedora?

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:eeedora

Rahul