[Debian-eeepc-devel] FLOSS Atheros drivers and donations

Paulus Esterhazy pesterhazy at gmx.net
Wed May 7 13:45:52 UTC 2008


Andrew Lee schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Paulus Esterhazy wrote:
>> I'm not sure how successful this would be - Debian surely cannot
>> financially support every single struggling hardware driver project
>> there is? Though it might be worth a try, given that the Eee PC is a
>> much-used computer. Someone else should ask, though, as I'm not a Debian
>> developer (or even very regular contributor).
> 
> There is a ASUS EeePC developers day on 8th-9th May. I will be there and
> Dancer is going to give a Debian project talk on ASUS's EeePC developers
> day on 9th May.
> 
> I will try to find a change to ask ASUS eeepc team about this donation
> during the event.
> 
> If ASUS refused, I think we give the one we are using for demo LXDE
> project during the event to the ath5k developers.

That great news. Please keep us updated. It would be great to have a
contact within Asus, as they are really hard to reach otherwise. I think
I'll suspend my "donation" efforts for now, but please let me know if
your plans don't work out.

Paulus



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