Mandriva supports eee

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 18:05 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> I don't own an Eee PC don't play to buy one at least until the second 
> generation (with a bigger display) will get out (expected this summer) 
> but if I had such a device I would want to install a full Fedora, not a 
> bastardized version of it (I may consider the Xfce spin if it is too 
> slow for GNOME).
> This is why I am curious why (if) Eee PC is not supported by Fedora 
> out-of-the box. As I understand from the linked article, Mandriva works 
> OOTB on Eee PC, only with some minor issues. It is not the same with Fedora?
[snip]

FWIW, I have an Eee PC, so I'll try to answer this:

When I first got the Eee PC, none of its network interfaces were
supported by Fedora.  I needed both the atl2 driver for the wired
network and madwifi for the wireless.

As the Eee PC doesn't have a CD drive, that left no easy way to get it
installed.  In the end, I downloaded and installed Eeedora, and then
reverted any changed packages back to Fedora (bringing me back to a
standard Fedora install).

I also went back to Gnome (mainly because it's familiar), set up a swap
partition for hibernation (setting sys.vm.swappiness to 0 so it doesn't
swap unless absolutely necessary), and installed compiz-fusion.  It
works great for me, and I've had no problems using it to connect at
various miscellaneous hotspots.

ATM the only non-Fedora bits I have on it are the patched madwifi driver
for wireless and the asus_acpi_eee driver so the hotkeys work.  The atl2
wired driver is now included in the latest Fedora kernels.

Jonathan
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