Re: ASUS Eee PC

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:52:33AM +0100, Steve Lee wrote:
 
> I do know one of the Orca team who relies on Orca was running Ubuntu
> on his eeePC at CSUN last year when I spoke to him. You could ping
> them on IRC to see how it has gone. I understand some of the hardware
> requires non-free drivers, which is a bizare choice for a Linux
> device.

I agree. The only outstanding issue seems to be the wireless, which uses an
Atheros chip that isn't supported by the ath5k driver integrated into the
2.6.25 kernel. I expect this limitation to be overcome, however, as doubtless
there are developers hard at work on the problem.