[CentOS-docs] HOWTO: Asus EEE Box Network card

Mon Aug 25 22:59:55 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:24:56PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Karol <darknesslabs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello I would like to make a HOWTO: fix the realtek network card on the asus
>> > eee box. Centos 5.2 detects it as r8186 but it doesn't work right out of the
>> > box. Thanks to #centos and google I was able to get it to work.
>>
>> When writing that page, could you also check out this wiki article by
>> Scott Robbins:
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WirelessAR5007EG
>>
>> which refers to (other nic) used in EeePC?
>
> I thought I edited that page (although checking, I see that I didn't.)
> The 5007EG is in the older ones but the newest generation is using the
> card that Karol mentions--at least, the latest 900 series is using that
> Realtek.  I'm going to edit the page in a minute to change the "eee pc"
> to "some models of the eee pc."

Could you then refer to the realtek driver and provide a link to wolfy's page?

Akemi