hi all, My new laptop arrived yesterday afternoon, an Asus Eee PC - more about it at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/eee_pc_701
I've had a look at getting Solaris to run on it - using an external USB disk installed with the Indiana preview bits (based on nv_75) I've two problems so far: * the keyboard doesn't work at the console or in X after a normal boot - curiously it's fine at the grub selection screen, and if I load kmdb during boot, it just works and I can login. External USB keyboards work fine too without needing to load kmbd. * the wireless card doesn't work. It's an atheros card, but has a different identifier. I did try update_drv -i '"pci168c,1c"' ath but the device fails to attach. (well, three - three problems, with apologies to Cardinal Ximinez!) * the wired nic isn't supported (but I didn't think it was, so no problem really) If anyone's interested, I've got some device information gathered from various Solaris commands running on the machine at http://mediacast.sun.com/share/timf/solaris-eeepc-info.tar.gz The laptop runs the default installed Xandros Linux just fine. Anyone got any ideas about the wifi or keyboard problems? Getting these sorted, and getting power management to work (suspend to ram works on Linux on this machine) would make it an amazing machine for demos of OpenSolaris, and light enough to carry around all day! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf
