I've installed SL5.4 on an ASUS eee S101 netbook that my lab has purchased. Reviews say Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.10 work "flawlessly" (Ubuntu). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220595
I usually use SL, so I've installed 5.4. lscpi indicates that the ethernet controler is Atheros (AR8121 ...) and wireless is atheros (AR928X). There are no "atheros" entries in the other card adaptor lists in the network configuration submenus. So, neither the ethernet card nor wireless adaptors are recognized? The README file from downloading atheros driver from madwifi shows latest download is 2/08. README says lspci should show it as "unknown" and a 0x168x vendor ID. lspci -v indicates both ethernet (8324) and wireless (1a3b:1067) are unknown devices. I'm guessing madwifi is not going to not work. Looks like I need special software. For lab usage, I don't need networking. It would be nice to update software etc. I'd install ubuntu if it gave me networking capability and which is not available via current RHEL5 SL distro. thoughts? Bill Lutter
