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

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, January 18, 2008 a las 10:41:28PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn escribió:

> At 9:14 AM -0500 1/2/08, 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.
> 
> One of the guys I know is running FreeBSD on the Eee, and has written
> up the following information for anyone who is interested in doing
> what he did:
> 
>         http://nighthack.org/wiki/EeeBSD
> 
> This includes tips on how to get the wireless working, and sound,
> and some oddities with how X11 works.

Thanks for that hint. I'm thinking in buying such a device to have it
with me as a typewriter, mostly; normally I use FreeBSD 7.0-REL on my
laptop with around 200 compiled ports: KDE, OpenOffice, Lyx, StarDict,
...
the compilation normally takes 2-3 days to have it all ready;

of course, on that limited device with 4 or 8 GByte SSD it is not an
option to compile the stuff up from /usr/ports on the system itself, not
only from the point of view of disk space, but also because of the limited
lifetime write cycles of the SSD;

in short: what would be the easiest way to move the installed ports from
my laptop to such an Eee PC? can I make, for example, packages from my
ports and install them?

Thx

	matthias

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