Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:29:35 +0200 From: David Marec <david.marec@davenulle.org> To: "freebsd-stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: EEEPC and FreeBSD 7.2 Message-ID: <200905112229.35432.david.marec@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: <4734a3ed0905110335k763bd7cbh7af572b358ce69ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <200905081147.46736.david.marec@davenulle.org> <4734a3ed0905110335k763bd7cbh7af572b358ce69ab@mail.gmail.com>
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Le Monday 11 May 2009 12:35:13 Henri-Pierre Charles, vous avez écrit : > Hello, > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:47 AM, David Marec <david.marec@davenulle.org> wrote: > > I am trying to use an EEEPC 701 as a diskless station, running FreeBSD 7. > > Great mini machine ! I agree. This one is owned by my wife, who does not want to change the system that was shipped with it ( Xandros). > > The EEPC station boots well with PXE then runs the kernel, but the only > > network card that is recognized is the wireless one (ath0). > > > > I read that the wired NIC ( ae? ) has been committed to HEAD; is there > > any way to make it work on 7-STABLE ? > > It works out of the box with 7.2 > > You hust have to add if_ae_load="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf I built a kernel that included this driver and the EEEPC is now working quite well as a diskless station. But i have to launch Xorg locally. It doesn't start on XDMCP mode and i didn't found yet what is wrong with this. /I think i will start another thread on a Xorg dedicated list about this point and the touchpad configuration./ -- http://david.marec.free.fr/ http://www.freebsd.org/fr/ http://www.diablotins.org/
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