OK folks, I've got a solution together, and it involves fixing both libsmbios and hal. The solution has been accepted upstream for libsmbios. Once there is a new release of libsmbios that includes this fix, I'll submit it to upstream hal as well.
This is the commit in libsmbios that is necessary for the HAL fix to work: http://linux.dell.com/git/?p=libsmbios.git;a=commitdiff;h=ad6c807303b7db44cc8c71f8b01722ff2b7b8d68;hp=1168ed653e2d95cb2336d0e851822fcd23265718 Attached is a debdiff for hardy-proposed. ** Attachment added: "libsmbios hardy fix" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16182463/libsmbios_hardy_proposed.debdiff -- HAL lockups/crashes on Dell D-series Latitudes w/ BIOS password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189814 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
