William Lutter wrote:
> 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.

ath9k is included in 5.5's kernel.  If you're feeling adventurous you 
can grab the sources for the beta and compile them yourself.  Or you can 
wait a while for SL 5.5's release.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.5.b1/html/Release_Notes/#id3488732

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Garrett Holmstrom
University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
Systems Staff