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From: Geoffrey Clements on 28 Nov 2008 05:26 "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message news:87hc5umj3r.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... [snip] > 01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n PCIe > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter > (rev b0) > > > For comparison, here is the lsmod output when it is booted with the > very nicely done Ubuntu 8.04 port (the Ubuntu lspci output shows two > devices as unknown 01:00.0 and 04:00.0). > So that'll mean that neither the wired nor wireless network will work without further work? -- Geoff
From: Daniel James on 28 Nov 2008 07:30 In article news:<apc306-e5j.ln1(a)neptune.markhobley.yi.org>, Mark Hobley wrote: > I saw a documentary on the television about Gentoo being used at a > University. It showed a classroom full of computers being used as a > compiler farm. Very nice! I imagine a classful of PCs running distcc would make pretty short work of building most things ... most things that are in C or C++ anyway. Cheers, Daniel.
From: Ben Bacarisse on 28 Nov 2008 09:34
"Geoffrey Clements" <geoffrey.clementsNO(a)SPAMbaesystems.com> writes: > "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message > news:87hc5umj3r.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... > > [snip] > >> 01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n PCIe >> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Corp. L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter >> (rev b0) >> >> >> For comparison, here is the lsmod output when it is booted with the >> very nicely done Ubuntu 8.04 port (the Ubuntu lspci output shows two >> devices as unknown 01:00.0 and 04:00.0). >> > > So that'll mean that neither the wired nor wireless network will work > without further work? No, they both work "out of the box" with Ubuntu. I suspect (though I have not checked) that this is due to special work done for the eeePC version that we used. -- Ben. |