On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:55:55 -0500
Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/22/2009 05:46 PM, Chris Vine wrote:
> > 
> > No, I hadn't.  But on doing so, booting with acpi=off makes b43 work
> > correctly.
> > 
> > In the light of this, do you want me to continue with this
> > debugging? I have to say though that I would be very reluctant to
> > run my netbook without ACPI: amongst other things, the power, lid
> > and thermal events won't work.  If this is not resolvable with b43,
> > I think I would probably have to go with the wl driver.
> 
> No, do not bother with the most-recent patch. The problem is not with
> b43, but with ACPI. The debugging will need to be done by that set of
> devs. If you want to forgo that debug step and switch to wl, then do
> so. Of course, you will never know when the ACPI bug will hit you
> again, and what the problem will be.

OK.  I may try blacklisting different ACPI modules and see if I can
identify which one is causing the problem.  If I find out I will report
back because a number of other people seem to be suffering the same
problem.

Thanks for your help.

Chris
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