FreeBSD on Asus EEE PC

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 16:00:28 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:26:06PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
 > Kip Macy wrote:
 > > Do you know what network chip it uses?
 > 
 > Not exactly, but apparently it's very well supported under Linux and
 > Windows since Google doesn't find anything useful on the topic.
 > 
 > I found this in the Linux drivers' source code:
 > 
 >  * Copyright(c) 2007 Atheros Corporation. All rights reserved.
 >  * Copyright(c) 2006 xiong huang <xiong.huang at atheros.com>
 >  *
 >  * Derived from Intel e1000 driver
 >  * Copyright(c) 1999 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
 > 
 > The Linux driver is here:
 > 
 > http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Eee%20PC%204G(701)&type=map&mapindex=8
 > (atl2_1.0.40.4-4.tar.gz)
 > 
 > I don't have the device anymore but will probably have it in a few weeks.
 > 

AFAIK kevlo@(Kevin Lo) is working on Attansic L1. Not sure his driver
also supports fast ethernet version(Attansic F2). I don't know current
status of the driver but it seems that he has a working driver.
Btw, you can also use a NDIS mini port driver until native driver hits
tree.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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