Since yesterday, my Eee PC 700 works without any proprietary drivers!
The new kernel upgrade brings in support for the Atheros device of the laptop, not actually supported by madwifi:
ath5k phy0: Support for RF2425 is under development.
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
Of course there are some glitches:
ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel (2447 Mhz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2447MHz)
ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2447MHz)
The kernel package I am using is the stock Fedora: 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686
Well done to the ath5k hackers!
Update: Fedora 10
I upgraded to Fedora 10 with yum and it all works fine! No more proprietary stuff! And KDE works with all the Desktop effects enabled!
Just the new graphical boot is not working, due to lacking Intel kernel modesetting drivers for now, no big deal anyway.
I love the new theme for sure!