Re: ASUS Eee compatibility

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, March 22, 2009 12:36 pm, Michael Neumann wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. März 2009 16:02:48 schrieb Justin C. Sherrill:
>> On Fri, March 20, 2009 6:22 am, Michael Neumann wrote:
>> > I have this ASUS EEE PC 1000H lying next to me, and DragonFly works
>> > perfectly on it [1]. It boots fine from the USB stick edition.
>> Hardware
>> > is supported except the wireless (wired works with the ale driver). I
>> > haven't tested X because I didn't want to overwrite Windows :)
>>
>> What's the wireless chipset in those?
>
> It's an RT2860.
>
> I did some initial (minor) porting from OpenBSD:
>
> http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~mneumann/dragonfly.git/shortlog/refs/heads/rt2860
>
>> And would it be worthwhile for people to band together and buy Sephe one
>> of these for support?
>
> If Sephe thinks he'd like one, then I think this is a great idea. Count me
> in with 100 EUR.

Sephe - would this, or similar hardware, be helpful?