[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#501498: Bug#501498: Bug#501498: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Fn-F2 turns wireless off, but never back on

[Itai Arad]

For me, at least, the first place to put such an important note is in
the wiki page of the project.

It is actually there - but in a sort of an obscured and confusing way
- as some hack that some user did to get things work.

As this is now the standard way in which wireless should work in the
901, I think it should be mentioned there in a very clear way in the
wiki.

I.

On 08/10/2008, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
> Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>  > -=| John Goerzen, Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:55:07PM -0500 |=-
>  >> I have an Eee 901.
>  >>
>  >> Pressing Fn-F2, the wireless toggle key, will turn wireless off but it
>  >> never comes back.  Looking at /sys, it did properly echo 0 to it to
>  >> turn it off and echo 1 to return it.  It also properly reloaded the
>  >> wireless module, but that module never saw the card.  ra0 never
>  >> reappeared.
>  >>
>  >> The older script I used involved using pciehp, but that trick doesn't
>  >> seem to work on 2.6.26.
>  >
>  > Do you have "pciehp" in /etc/modules and "options pciehp
>
>  No.
>
>  > pciehp_force=1 pciehp_slot_with_bus=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/local?
>
>  No.
>
>  But making both of those changes fixed the problem for me.
>
>  > I have removed the pciehp mangling in the script as /etc/modules
>  > (modprobe.d) looks like a more appropriate place for it.
>  >
>  > Would adding this to README.Debian have helped you?
>
>  Honestly it might not have, but it really should have :-)
>
>  I would say a debconf note in addition might be warranted here.  Some
>  others might not even know this package is involved.
>
>  -- John
>
>
>
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