On 8/29/09, Alan Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/28/09, pavithran <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/8/24 pavithran <[email protected]>: >>> >>> So what do you guys suggest ? Install that broken driver in 30 kernel >>> and just be careful ot to turn off wireless ? >>> Or is there a easier solution( heard 28 or 29 kernel works ?? ) ? >> >> Confident that any other driver is not coming soon . I went on to >> install the ralink-firmware package which has the broken driver for 30 >> kernel. >> >> Here are my observations: >> >> * Driver works perfectly on a freshly booted machine . >> *when the lid of my eee pc was closed I was aware that the freeze will >> occur >> . >> * I opened up my eee-pc to find that it burnt my hand :( >> *Really got heated up and was not shutting down . I had to remove the >> battery . >> >> Well acpi scripts for EEE 901 are doing pretty nasty things :( >> >> I am using EEE 901 ( UK keyboard) with debian sid upgraded 5 hours >> back . I installed formware ralink driver 3 hours back . Hope that >> information is sufficient. Shall I paste some logs? > > It's really unlikely that the eeepc acpi scripts are the root cause. > They do trigger a suspend when the lid is closed. But it doesn't > surprise me if the buggy diver bugs out on suspend. > > You could disable the automatic suspend by editting > /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts. > However, you can usually work around such driver bugs by unloading the > module on suspend. > > Replace "..." below with the name of the ralink module. > > cat >> /etc/pm/sleep.d/10ralink << EOF > #!/bin/bash > > SUSPEND_MODULES=$SUSPEND_MODULES ...
sorry, that should be SUSPEND_MODULES="$SUSPEND_MODULES ..." again, where '...' is whatever the ralink module is called. (if you're not sure, try running "ls -l /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver/module") > EOF > > chmod a+x /etc/pm/sleep.d/10ralink > > Alan > _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
