From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 18:32:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120DE1065670 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmt@twilley.org) Received: from alpha.twilley.org (alpha.twilley.org [204.152.189.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013ED8FC08 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmt@twilley.org) Received: from [10.103.8.214] (205.158.109.36.ptr.us.xo.net [205.158.109.36]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by alpha.twilley.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42163233820 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:14:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49396F96.8050403@twilley.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:14:46 -0800 From: Jack Twilley User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081009) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Asus EEE -- suspend, card reader and camera X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:32:07 -0000 I am a mostly-happy user of an Asus EEE 701. Recently I was pointed at http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee which has more current information than the nighthack page. I'm running RELENG_7 and I am pleased to confirm that the wired Ethernet works out of the box. I'm looking forward to ath_hal merging from current so I can stop copying over the madwifi hal directory. I have only three issues remaining, some of which are at least partially discussed on that page. First, I'm new to FreeBSD on laptops. I tried to suspend with Fn-F1 and it seemed to do the right thing, but I don't know how to resume. I tried Fn-F1 and it didn't work. I hit the power button, and the LEDs changed but the screen never woke up. I had to hold down the power button to get it to shut off, then tapped it to bring it up. I added the sysctls as recommended by the wiki page -- is there something else I'm missing? Second, the card reader seems to bite the shed if I use it in the 40MB/s mode but not in the 1MB/s mode. Is this a hardware problem or a software problem or what? Is there some geek knob I can twiddle to throttle the card reader so I can use some happy medium? 1MB/s is really slow. :-) Third, there isn't a single mention of the camera on that page. I saw a sysctl for the camera but it seems to simply report whether or not the camera is enabled in the BIOS. Are there any apps which use the camera? Is there a driver issue with it, or something else that I haven't heard? Thanks so much for all your work. I am very pleased with how well the laptop is supported in general, and it's sweet to show the Linux users that it's not the only non-Windows choice for the Eee! Jack.