Posted on 2008-11-12 02:53:45
By Adam McDaniel
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I was going through some of the newer intrepid code tonight, comparing the various changes between the hardy and hardy-proposed branch and intrepid when I came across a simple upgrade which'll greatly benefit EeePC 701SD, 901 and later owners.
Specifically, for the 701SD owners, the hardy eeepc kernel previously didn't actually support the rtl8187se wireless card found on this device. Hardy-proposed did, so I back-ported the rtl8187se driver to hardy.
For the 901 and later owners, the rt2860sta wireless driver was upgraded to v1.7.1.1; this provides better support for WPA and WPA2 encrypted networks. (Again, this was a case where hardy-proposed had the upgrade, but hardy did not.)
If you're already running the hardy-proposed kernel (currently 2.6.24-22-eeepc) then you already have these wireless upgrades and don't need to do anything. (Once Ubuntu has stabilized 2.6.24-22-generic, then I'll likely release that kernel as the standard hardy build. |
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