Fedora 10 on Asus eee 701 feedback

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 29.11.2008 16:55, Jim wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 29.11.2008 15:42, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis 
>>> <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>>>> On 29.11.2008 14:51, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> After compiling madwifi-hal and blacklisting ath5k wireless started
>>>>> working perfectly.
>>>> FYI, in case you are not aware of it: You can get madwifi 
>>>> pre-compiled from
>>>> RPM Fusion. Getting it from there might be the best for those that 
>>>> don't
>>>> want to compile or blacklist manually.
>>> For Fedora 9 madwifi drivers from rpmfusion stopped working for me (I
>>> believe I also posted a bug on your mailing list) 
>> Not all package maintainer read the mailing lists. Hence please file a 
>> bug (http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org) if you encounter a problem. That 
>> is the best way to get a problem fixed -- then it'll not only work for 
>> you, but also "just work" for everybody else. And that's what all of 
>> us want, isn't it?
>>> so I started
>>> manually compiling drivers. I'm using now the new madwifi-hal and not
>>> madwifi drivers.
>> RPM Fusion in the F-10 branch as well.
> The driver for the wireless on the eeePC is built in the 2.6.27 kernel.

Just to make sure everyone knows: RPM Fusion knows about that and there 
were discussions to drop madwifi completely. Sooner or later (likely 
sooner!) that will happen. But seems a lot of people still want it, 
hence we offer it for now.

Cu
knurd