F10 on Asus EEE PC901

[Peter Robinson]

>>> - Reboot does not work. After shutting down the system I have to remove
>>> the
>>> battery and disconnect the power adapter, otherwise I can't switch on the
>>> system again.
>>
>> I've never had an issue with my 901 on reboots. Have you looked at
>> updating the BIOS as a newer one of these might fix that sort of
>> issue.
>
> I'm using BIOS 1603, seems to be the recent version.

I think the BIOS in mine is quiet a bit earlier than that. Weird.

>>> - WLAN does not work (missing driver).
>>
>> Known issue. The driver needs to be re-written to be included in the
>> kernel upstream. There is a driver in rpmfusion.org repos. Its the
>> rt2860 driver.
>
> Yes. This does not work. It finds the access points, but does not associate
> with the access point. This is a known problem on the Linux kernel
> mailinglist.

The driver in rpmfusion doesn't work for me on an AP configured with
WPA2 but does with 2 different APs with WPA. Not ideal but the best
we'll get until something gets upstreamed.

Peter