Re: [gentoo-laptop] EEE PC wierdness with NetworkManager

[Jan K.]

Hi Christopher,
I am using gentoo on an eeepc 701 4G. I was trying kernel 2.6.23 with 
eeepatches (http://geeentoo.com/) with the actual snapshop from madwifi 
hal, which was working well 
(http://madwifi.org/browser/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6) exept 
some powermanagement issues (suspend to ram) which I got fixed by 
upgrading to actual 2.6.26 kernel.

With this kernel I also have problems with the wireless card (kernel 
2.6.26: ath5k) like here: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1854

I was quite pissed to see an "it's a known bug, don't bother, its only 
optional" at the end of each of those tickets. I mean, a working wlan on 
a eeepc for me is more than optional. maybe and hopefully this will work 
on future kernels, till then we will all have to use the non-kernel 
drivers for eeepc connectivity:

atl2 (wired network):
http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/

ath_hal (wireless network):
http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz

and or refer to the following page, which helped me very much:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Asus_Eee_PC_701

and beyond all, have fun ;-)

bests,
jan


Christopher Friedt schrieb:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anyone else on this list is using an EEE PC with
> Gentoo, and if so, what is your setup?
>
> I'm still having some difficulties with NetworkManager - apparently
> there are some idiosyncrasies with the ath driver so that it doesn't
> properly respond to some iwconfig api calls, which prevents
> NetworkManager from being able to use the EEE PC Atheros card at all.
>
> Is anyone having any luck with this?
>
> I've got a bunch of documentation set up here:
>
> http://virtb.visibleassets.com:2080
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris