EeePC 900 vs. 900A

[Chris Eveleigh]

On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 10:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>>>> I'm not sure of the differences between the 900 and the 900a but the
> >>>>> 901 doesn't have wifi out of the box but the driver in rpmfusion works
> >>>>> well.
> >>>> Realtek 802.11n chip?
> 
> BTW, is a Ralink chip
> 
> >>> Something like that. Its something like the rt2860 driver. I think it
> >>> has crappy stuff like stuff in /etc
> >> That's the one.
> >> Supposedly the driver is under a rewrite to be included in the upstream
> >> kernel, but I am not aware about the current status.
> > 
> > Its been in a rewrite state for ages with what seems like no real
> > progress. I read somewhere the USB variant would be done first but
> > that hasn't seemed to materialise yet.
> 
> More than half year ago it was supposed to be ready for kernel 
> 2.6.29[1], but since then I took the "easy way" with the akmod from 
> rpmfusion and didn't follow the development.


does the wireless survive a suspend/resume for you?  i'm sure it worked
once (with the 1.7.0 driver on F9) but since then i've always had to
reboot to get the wireless back again - even rmmod/modprobe doesn't
recover it.


> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121800946112830&w=2
> 
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