Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Friday 19 February 2010 08:10:39 am Alan Jenkins wrote:
> On 2/18/10, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got an ASUS EeePC 1005PE a few days ago and am trying to install
> > Debian testing on it.
> >
> > There have been several problems so far:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 2. The Ethernet card disappeared completely.  It did no longer show up
> > in the output from lspci, nor was it accessible in Windows.  This
> > problem persisted over shutdowns as well.  Removing the battery and
> > disconnecting the power supply luckily made the card show up again.
> >
> > A patch was available for this issue on a different EeePC model [3].
> > This one was not so easy to backport, so I just changed it to disable
> > hot-plug always (patch attached).  This solved this issue for me: the
> > Ethernet card does no longer disappear.
> >
> > [3] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14570
> 
> My suggestion for this problem would be to contact the eeepc-laptop
> maintainer :-).
> 
> I guess we're too late to add a blacklist entry for 2.6.33, but we
> should be able to get a fix into 2.6.33.1.

I think blacklist addition should be fine even for .33.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry