* Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE
2010-02-19 16:10 ` [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE Alan Jenkins
@ 2010-02-19 22:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-20 5:18 ` Ansgar Burchardt
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From: Dmitry Torokhov @ 2010-02-19 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Jenkins
Cc: Ansgar Burchardt, Corentin Chary, debian-eeepc-devel,
debian-users, ACPI Devel Maling List
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
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* Re: Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE
2010-02-19 16:10 ` [Debian-eeepc-devel] Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE Alan Jenkins
2010-02-19 22:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
@ 2010-02-20 5:18 ` Ansgar Burchardt
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From: Ansgar Burchardt @ 2010-02-20 5:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Jenkins; +Cc: Corentin Chary, ACPI Devel Maling List, debian-eeepc-devel
Hi,
Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com> writes:
>> I got an ASUS EeePC 1005PE a few days ago and am trying to install
>> Debian testing on it.
> <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.
>
> Please confirm that the wireless toggle key (possibly fn+f2) works
> correctly for you after disabling hotplug. That is, it doesn't break
> if you disable the wireless and enable it again (and you don't see
> anything too scary in the kernel log).
After finally managing to set up hostapd, I can confirm that this works.
I disabled the wireless interface using [Fn]+[F2], then enabled it
again. After restarting hostapd, I was able to connect to use the
wireless network again.
The kernel log contains nothing scary (only a boring "wlan0: no IPv6
routers present").
Regards,
Ansgar
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