EeePC 900 vs. 900A

[Chris Eveleigh]

On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 12:49 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Andreas Tunek  wrote:
> > 2009/3/17 Chris Eveleigh :
> >> On Wed, 2009-03-17 at 10:06 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I have the same trouble with my EEE 901 with F10.
> >
> > /Andreas
> >
> 
> I maintain all the rtxxx0 drivers at RPMFusion. This was reported

a HUGE thank you for that! :-D

> before and a user came up with a suspend script which worked for him.
> Unfortunately, since suspend *never* worked for me on Fedora with or
> without a wireless card, I couldn't test the script. But I added the
> script to the RPM's. Could you grab the rtxxx0 RPM from RPMFusion's
> testing repo and try the suspend script? It may need to be tweaked a
> little to work for individual cases.
> 
i'll test this as soon as i can.  hopefully tonight but might be later
in the week.  where should i report the results?

> And yes, the serialmonkey driver is progressing slowly. Once they said
> it was going to be ready for 2.6.28, then 2.6.29... We are still
> waiting. Ralink isn't very good with their driver releases either. I
> need to patch their drivers heavily to get them compile and work.
> 
> Orcan
> 
> PS: Currently we have RPM's for rt2860, rt2870 and rt3070 chipsets.
>