The camera works fine, it's just the fact that Xandros (or the distribution of it supplied with the 701) only supports WEP encryption over WLAN, no WPA. Incidentally, the Eee distribution in particular of Xandros is evil and it must die.
Ubuntu Intrepid should work OK on the Eee, but I've been impressed with Fedora 10–everything works out of the box with it (except Cheese, which needs a bit of fiddling to get it to work).
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