[CentOS-devel] CentOS on the Asus Eeepc ...

Marcus Moeller

mm at gcug.de
Sun Sep 7 18:56:38 UTC 2008


Dear Adrian.

> We talked earlier on IRC about the Asus Eeepc
> I think the idea was to start a wiki page with at least informations
> regarding the Eeepc.
> So here it is : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Asus/Eeepc (not linked
> from the CentOS on Laptops wiki page yet though , still a draft ;-) )

First, thanks for your work on Eee support.

> I had to modify the installer initrd.img to include the atl2.ko module for
> the wired nic to install from my local mirror .. where do i store it ? on
> the wiki page itself, as an attachment ? a simple link to a tmp space on my
> website ?
>
> I'm now wondering what's the best way to include the atl2.ko module during
> setup : a rpm that will be fetched from centos extras (?) or a simple
> driverdisk ?

I would suggest to use ddiskit as that's what it's meant to be for.

An option could be to build an RPM and to include it in an additional
repository.

Best Regards
Marcus



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