Re: ASUS Eee compatibility

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> 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
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> > > > What's the wireless chipset in those?
> > > It's an RT2860.
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was hoping to get my eee 901 machine (fully) working with some BSD OS -
ideally dragonfly, but one step at a time..

since my dragonfly time is unfortunately much less than it should be,
some (hopefully accurate) notes compiled 2/15 w/r/t status in the 
various BSD's is attached..

cheers,

- Chris


Bsd-on-eee901 status
====================

OS           Ethernet Wifi Sleep
=========    ======== ==== =====
FreeBSD      yes      no   yes   
OpenBSD      no       yes  maybe
NetBSD       no       no   yes?
DragonflyBSD no       yes  maybe

Drivers are 'ale' for ethernet, and 'ral' for wifi.

Plan
====

  - get all srcs on dev01
  - setup freebsd on eee02
  - build freebsd on dev01
  - merge openbsd ral driver changes to freebsd
  - migrate eee01 to freebsd
  - reinstall eee02 with dragonfly
  - migrate ale to dragonfly
  - migrate netbsd sleep/suspend to dragonfly
  - profit!!

Links
=====


hardware: 

  - keeps my head straight

    http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee#head-0ec25ebfd5cc91803a27ffefe989f34ee19d887e
 
  - notes on 700 setup

    http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD

misc:

  - bootable freebsd images

    http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2007/10/building-bootable-freebsdi386-images.html

manpages / driver source:

  - openbsd:

    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/if_ral_pci.c?rev=1.14
    
    for another chip supported by the same driver, which is in net/free bsd, for comparison:

    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/ic/rt2661.c?rev=1.47;content-type=text%2Fplain

  - netbsd:

    http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ral++NetBSD-current
    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/if_ral_pci.c?rev=1.9&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN  

    same other chip:

    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ic/rt2661.c?rev=1.25&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

  - freebsd:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ral&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current&format=html
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ral/if_ral_pci.c?rev=1.8

    same other chip:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ral/rt2661.c?rev=1.27