Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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?

Yep, USB-connected from what I can tell by looking at
/proc/bus/usb/devices. (gak! linux!)

Further digging reveals it's one of these:
http://www.ene.com.tw/english/productlist.asp?product_level2_id=27
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=6103

Let me know if there's anything else I can help with?

        cheers.
                        tim

> 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
>>   
> 
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