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

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

[Alan Jenkins]

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.

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).

Thanks
Alan

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

[Dmitry Torokhov]

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

Re: Debian on the ASUS EeePC 1005PE

[Ansgar Burchardt]

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