[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#485236: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Fn+F2 sometimes fails to switch wireless on

[Niccolo Rigacci]

Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.0.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Sometimes - when you hit Fn+F2 to switch the wireless on - the
led blinks for a moment and then goes back to off.
I solved the problem adding a "sleep 1" after the modprobe command
in the /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh script:

    ...
    modprobe ath_pci
    sleep 1
    if ! ifconfig ath0 up; then exec $0 off; fi
    ...

A more elegant solution will be a loop while ifconfig fails, with
a longer timeout.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-eeepc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.109-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1.0.6-9    Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.16-1   ALSA utilities
ii  pm-utils                      1.1.0-1    utilities and scripts for power ma

eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends no packages.

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