Andreas Schreiner wrote:
Quoting Trevor <[email protected]>:
This is a constant bug for me on 900a. Fn+F2 will switch wireless off,
but not back on. Running the wireless scripts manually results in:
off:
tre...@myri:/etc/acpi/actions$ sudo sh wireless.sh off
Detected eeepc-wlan as rfkill /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0
Detected WLAN module ath5k on wlan0
On:
tre...@myri:/etc/acpi/actions$ sudo sh wireless.sh on
Detected eeepc-wlan as rfkill /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0
Detected WLAN module ath5k on wlan0
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
exec: 51: wireless.sh: not found
the led comes back on, but I get no connectivity and scanning with wicd
anything else I can provide?
I also use the EeePC 900a but not with pure Debian but Sidux instead. I
have not yet tried this with "real" Debian Kernels and this is why I
didt not yet open a bug report.
But the story is as follows! The EeePC 900A still needs pciehp_force=1
when loading the pciehp kernel module - even with the most up-to-date
kernels. WLAN toggle will not work without pciehp_force=1 but it will
work with it!
Here is what you can do to test this:
Reboot, then open a console and become root:
Unload the pciehp module:
# modprobe -r pciehp
Load it again with pciehp_force
# modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1
You will now see that WLAN toggle works again without problems by
pressing fn-F2
If you want to fix this permanently until the next eeepc-acpi-scripts
update you can edit the /etc/init.d/eeepc-acpi-scripts file accordingly.
This is what I have done but I would only recommend it if you at least
understand how the file works and what to change - otherwise might break
something.
I hope I will find some time soon to test this with original Debian
Kernels (stable, testing and unstable). Then it'll be easy to patch
eeepc-acpi-scripts accordingly to specially treat the 900A.
Regards
Andreas Schreiner
Hey! It works great! Thanks Andreas!
All, I can take on working up a patch to do this by default on the 900a
(testing on all current kernels). Where should I send/submit the patch
once it's ready? Andreas, let me know if you would prefer to take the
lead or corroborate on this. I don't usually boot from the pre-ath5k
kernels, but I can definitely do so for testing purposes.
Trevor Chart
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