Re: ASUS Eee compatibility

[Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Justin C. Sherrill
<justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I didn't follow this thread :)

I have the hardware (a PCI card, somewhere lying in my office).  The
problem is I don't have enough time.

Best Regards,
sephe

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