The SD/MMC slot doesn't appear to be a standard SDhost controller on the
PCI bus. Is it connected via USB? Or is there something I'm missing here?
-- Garrett
Tim Foster wrote:
> 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
>
