On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > http://justingill.com/blog/2008/03/18/mandriva-linux-spring-2008-release-on-the-asus-eee-pc/ > > > > Interesting article. > > > > I know there is eeedora but that is not an official fedora spin but a > > project maintained by only one eee and fedora user [1] > > > > Does anybody know if there are any plans to support eeedora project > > more officially from Fedora? There are milions of eee sold and > > although xandros has made a nice UI for it the base system has lost of > > issues if users want to install new software (apt-get dependency hell > > because of conflicting xandros, debian, ubuntu and eee repos). > > There has been discussions between eeedora maintainer and Fedora people. > Unfortunately eeedora relies on the proprietary madwifi solution for > wireless and distributions that claim to support eee do the same afaik. > The long term solution is replacing the proprietary bits with native > wireless drivers in the upstream Linux kernel. That can take a couple of > revisions and John Linville who is the upstream wireless subsystem > maintainer would know more details. Testing the bleeding edge bits > available in rawhide and providing feedback might help. > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/ > > Rahul Hi John, is there anyway I can help in troubleshooting open source atheros drivers? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic
