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NetBSD/i386 on Asus EeePC

Supported Hardware

The following hardware components can be found inside the EeePC. Information here includes what drivers support the hardware component, if any is present in NetBSD.

Device Driver Available in Comment
Ethernet: lii(4) 4.1 -
WiFi: ath(4) - Works with the following patch
Webcam: - - UVC
Suspend to RAM: X.org + xf86-video-intel-2.2.1 5.0 -
Display: X.org and XFree86, both i810 and Intel drivers 4.0 x11/xf86-video-i810, x11/xf86-video-intel
Hardware-3D: i915drm 4.0 -
Audio: azalia(4) 5.0 -
USB: umass(4) etc. 4.0 -
SD Slot: umass(4) 4.0 -
Fn keys: asus(4) 5.0 Volume, brightness control

Installing NetBSD on a EeePC

You can boot your EeePC from the network as described in our Netboot HowTo. After that, you can do a normal network install.

The usual steps to reduce power consumption as outlined in our Power Management documentation apply.

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