[Sugar-devel] Soas2 on EEEPC 901?

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> [adding back sugar-devel to cc]
> 
> Sebastian, can we add this driver to Soas2?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu

Heh. That issue goes in the same direction as our multimedia-support 
discussion. The driver isn't included in the kernel, and that way not in 
  Fedora. Now I guess we could pull it from RPM Fusion (a third party 
repository), but I'm not sure if we would run into legal (or any other) 
trouble that way...

Somebody suggested some time ago to get the Fedora maintainers to 
include some module related to wifi on the Classmate-PC in the kernel, 
as they're allowing stuff on a case-by-case basis. But normally, it 
seems to be 'it's not ready for the mainline kernel, so it's not ready 
for Fedora'.

Don't get me wrong, I think we should really try to get this working 
(both the EeePCs, as well as the Classmate-PCs), also as those might 
turn out to be good to showcase, but in this case I'm just not sure.

--Sebastian

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 16:30, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> I checked and it looks like its not built in. I'll try the external
>> repository and customize my install.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc#Eee_PC_90x.2F1000_Series
>>
>> "Eee PC 901/1000H wireless chip is Ralink RT2860, which is not supported by
>> current kernel (work on support is in progress, see rt2400 project page for
>> more details), but there's an open source driver provided by Ralink.
>> RPMFusion has an akmod package with this driver (akmod-rt2860). Read this
>> for more details on external repositories. "
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 16:22, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone gotten this working? It boots up find, sound works, but I
>>>> don't
>>>> seem to have any wireless. It looks like the driver is not loading
>>>> iwconfig
>>>> doesn't show any wireless adapters.
>>> What wireless hw does it have? Works fine here on a eeepc 900A with an
>>> ath5k.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Dave
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Bauer
>>>> dave at solutiongrove.com
>>>> http://www.solutiongrove.com