Hey folks-- Thanks for all the work on the eeepc for debian. It was a real treat to get to use all my favorite tools on a new system with minimal fiddling. i'm using an eeepc 900 with bios 0802.
I ran into the pciehp issue yesterday, which i just blogged about [0].
I wonder if there's a way to check to automatically make sure that
pciehp is properly loaded initially? why was the modprobe pciehp
removed from the wireless acpi toggle in eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.0.9?
Under that version, if pciehp is not in /etc/modules (or otherwise
pre-loaded correctly), the wireless device won't properly unplug/plug.
If /etc/modules is the right place for it, is there a way to encourage
adding that line somewhere? I don't know where the right place to put
this suggestion would be, but it wouldn't hurt to have it in
/usr/share/doc/eeepc-acpi-scripts/README.Debian.gz.
Anyway, here's a separate observation about wireless misbehavior on
this machine.
I'm using kernel 2.6.26, and madwifi for the wireless. madwifi
creates two ethernet devices: wifi0 and ath0. Since i'm using
network-manager, when i echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan &&
modprobe ath_pci, both wifi0 and ath0 enter the UP state (according to
"ip link").
But i notice that when i put the system to sleep and then wake it up
again, ath0 is "UP", but wifi0 is *not* UP. In this state, i can't
even scan for networks. At the most fine-grained level (with full
superuser powers), i appear to be able to fix this with the command:
"ip link set wifi up". But i'm often not running as the superuser, so
it's quickest to just hit Fn+F2 twice to disable and then re-enable
the wireless (because they both come back up in the UP state). But
why would wifi0 not be up upon wake from sleep? Has anyone else
experienced this? Any suggested workarounds?
--dkg
[0] http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/37
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