[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc901, Fn+F2 to switch off wifi FREEZE the system; switch on works

[Alan Jenkins]

On 8/24/09, Vic Lee <llyzs at 163.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just give you a little background for the bug.
>
> Yesterday I have a clean install of Lenny then full-upgrade to Squeeze.
> I use the standard Lenny installer (not the one customized for eeepc!)
> because I want to test with a "clean" Squeeze system. I did the
> following steps on my eeepc 901:
>
> 1) Install Lenny using standard Debian network installer
> 2) Change sources.list and full-upgrade to Squeeze immediately
> 3) Install the following additional packages to make the hardware
> working:
> bluetooth
> firmware-ralink
> eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.1)
>
> I even recreate my home directory. So this is a very clean system.
>
> Before I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 nothing happen.
> After I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 freeze my system entirely. But
> when I hard-boot it, the wifi was indeed disable in BIOS, and I have no
> problem at all enable it again using fn+f2. But disable it always
> freeze.
>
> Any idea about this or any additional steps I have to do to help to
> track the problem?
>
> Thanks,

That sounds like "rt2860: kernel freezes completely when turning off WiFi"
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390>.

So you're not the first to report this.  But all we have at the moment
is a workaround patch for the eeepc-laptop kernel module, and the hope
that rt2800pci will eventually fix it.

Regards
Alan