Hi, Thanks, this information is really helpful, and sorry I couldn't find this before I post here. :)
So this is a kernel driver bug... Hopefully the patch will be merged into mainline and get into squeeze... I am going to avoid using it at this moment. Thanks again. Vic On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:41 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: > On 8/24/09, Vic Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just give you a little background for the bug. > > > > Yesterday I have a clean install of Lenny then full-upgrade to Squeeze. > > I use the standard Lenny installer (not the one customized for eeepc!) > > because I want to test with a "clean" Squeeze system. I did the > > following steps on my eeepc 901: > > > > 1) Install Lenny using standard Debian network installer > > 2) Change sources.list and full-upgrade to Squeeze immediately > > 3) Install the following additional packages to make the hardware > > working: > > bluetooth > > firmware-ralink > > eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.1) > > > > I even recreate my home directory. So this is a very clean system. > > > > Before I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 nothing happen. > > After I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 freeze my system entirely. But > > when I hard-boot it, the wifi was indeed disable in BIOS, and I have no > > problem at all enable it again using fn+f2. But disable it always > > freeze. > > > > Any idea about this or any additional steps I have to do to help to > > track the problem? > > > > Thanks, > > That sounds like "rt2860: kernel freezes completely when turning off WiFi" > <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390>. > > So you're not the first to report this. But all we have at the moment > is a workaround patch for the eeepc-laptop kernel module, and the hope > that rt2800pci will eventually fix it. > > Regards > Alan _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
