[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#494152: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Strange behavior of wlan button

[Conny]

John Goerzen skrev:
> Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
> Version: 1.0.4
> Severity: normal
> 
> This is on an Eee 901.
> 
> There are a couple of problems here:
> 
> 1) When wifi is disabled, the blue wifi hardware light is still on,
> but ra0 doesn't show up anywhere.
> 
> 2) When I press Fn-F2 to turn on wifi, it appears to be turned on for
> a brief time (seconds) and then goes back off.  I can verify this with
> cat /proc/acpi/asus/wlan.  If I echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/wlan and then
> restart network-manager, wifi comes on properly.
> 
> Perhaps this is related to instances of ath0 in
> /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh?  (Just a guess.  On the 901, we use ra0
> instead of ath0)
> 
> 3) Pressing Fn-F2 does not appear to tweak the Bluetooth status at
> all, as it does in the default Linux install on the 901.
> 
> The default Linux install has an OSD and Fn-F2 cycles through the
> states:
> 
>  * All wireless off
>  * wifi on, bt off
>  * wifi on, bt on
>  * wifi off, bt on
> 
> You can't really implement that in Debian without having OSD turned
> on.  I'd be fine if Fn-F2 toggled the states of both BT and wifi at
> the same time.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
> ii  acpi-support-base             0.109-5    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
> ii  acpid                         1.0.6-10   Utilities for using ACPI power man
> ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.16-2   ALSA utilities
> ii  pm-utils                      1.1.2.3-1  utilities and scripts for power ma
> 
> eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
> pn  aosd-cat                      <none>     (no description available)
> ii  gsfonts-x11                   0.21       Make Ghostscript fonts available t
> ii  ttf-bitstream-vera            1.10-7     The Bitstream Vera family of free 
> ii  ttf-dejavu                    2.25-1     Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
Take a look here for a eee-kernel and howto get the hotkeys working, 
should work with Debian also.

http://www.array.org/ubuntu/post-install.html