Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

[Chad Perrin]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:14:19AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +0000, James Jeffery wrote:
> 
> > Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee (mini
> > laptops) with FreeBSD?
> 
> It works, but no drivers exist for the wireless or wired Ethernet ports.
> The wireless is a newer Atheros part and ath(4) should gain support for
> it, but I have no idea what the timeline will be.  The wired Ethernet
> is an Atheros (formerly Attansic) L2 10/100, and I'm not aware of any
> concrete plans for a driver for it.
> 
> I've used a Linksys USB200M USB ethernet (axe(4) driver) with mine and
> that works well.

Do you happen to know how well it's supported with the other major BSD
Unix systems (Open- and Net-)?

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