Re: EEEpc 1015 mumble

[Ignatios Souvatzis <presse%ycm-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:52:53PM -0500, fire crow wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:35 PM, fire crow <fire%firecrow.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Julio Merino <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost> 
> > wrote:
> >> On 01/15/11 00:24, is%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:46:23PM -0500, fire crow wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have another ASUS laptop that needs the same driver, alc0
> >>>>
> >>>> I got a patch to work, think it was based on the openbsd driver
> >>>> links to the patch are shown here.
> >>>
> >>> Added that to a netbsd-5-1 kernel, after adding 4 PCIE definitions
> >>> the kernel compiles and links but booting from ALC on the 1008HA
> >>> gives read timeouts for phy register accesses.
> >>>
> >>> Time for some scrutinizing, but a lot of sleep first.
> >>
> >> Can any of you guys update the "NetBSD on Netbooks" page at:
> >>
> >>    http://www.netbsd.org/ports/i386/netbook.html
> >>
> >> to include the models you mention?  (the 1015 something, 1015PEM and
> >> 1008HA)?
> >>
> >> (... or, if you don't feel like so, provide me the required details so I 
> >> can
> >> do it?)
> >
> > we could say
> >
> > Acer Aspire One Ethernet (AR8132)
> >
> > Apply the patches on the mailing list, and then monkey around a lot
> > until it works, but I think until its in the current branch, it still
> > falls more under "unsuported" than "supported".
> >
> > or it may be a good idea to have a third label "experimental" and then
> > a link to a page of updates and links to patches and things.
> 
> oh, I see the wiki links now in the comments, I can fill in a wiki
> page of what worked for me, how can I get a wiki user, or should I
> submit the content to a member to post on my behalf.
> 
> I'm on another laptop model asus ul50vt, not necessarily a netbook,
> but it has the AR8132 network card that uses alc0.

Uhm, does it do anything more than a lot of "phy read timeout"s?

        -is