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 * rt2860sta driver won't compile with 2.6.26 kernel (sid); use 2.6.25 (lenny) for the time being.

Work on supporting the 901 and other Atom-based models (1000, 1000H) has commenced. We have a source package for the atl1e ethernet driver at http://eeepc.debian.net/ and are working on producing debs of this and rebuilding the installer to include them so that an ethernet-based install on these models will be possible.

A driver for the wireless hardware can be found at http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2.

?JohnGoerzen has confirmed these things work on the 901:

  • X
  • Hardware ethernet
  • Wifi with above driver, including WPA2 and network-manager
  • Suspend/Resume
  • Hotkeys: suspend, brightness, others untested.

Performance seems to be better than the Xandros install.

?ThijmenDeGooijer has confirmed these things to work on the 1000H:

  • X also on external display
  • Hardware ethernet
  • Wifi with above driver, including WPA2 and network-manager
  • Sound output, recording untested
  • Suspend/Resume to disk
  • Hotkeys: suspend, brightness, volume control (after modifying VOLUME_LABEL in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts).

?IvanSanchez reports:

  • In order for the Wifi hotkey (Fn+F2) to work, /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh needs to be tweaked - replace "ath0" with "ra0" and "ath_pci" with "rt2860sta". Do this after installing the rt2860sta driver from the above link.
  • Bluetooth does not work out of the box
  • Remember to install cpufreq-utils to allow throttling (works like a charm with acpi_cpufreq)
  • ACPI events do work out of the box with 2.6.26 kernel - seems like the 901's ACPI implementation is less buggy than the 701's.
  • rt2860sta driver won't compile with 2.6.26 kernel (sid); use 2.6.25 (lenny) for the time being.

This doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box:

  • Display switching
  • Hotkeys: LCD off, others untested