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

[Alan Jenkins]

On 8/28/09, pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/24 pavithran <pavithran.s at gmail.com>:
>>
>> So what do you guys suggest ?  Install that broken driver in 30 kernel
>> and just be careful ot to turn off wireless ?
>> Or is there a easier solution( heard 28 or 29 kernel works ?? ) ?
>
> Confident that any other driver is not coming soon . I went on to
> install the ralink-firmware package which has the broken driver for 30
> kernel.
>
> Here are my observations:
>
> * Driver works perfectly on a freshly booted machine .
> *when the lid of my eee pc was closed I was aware that the freeze will occur
> .
> * I opened up my eee-pc to find that it burnt my hand :(
> *Really got heated up and was not shutting down . I had to remove the
> battery .
>
> Well acpi scripts for EEE 901 are doing pretty nasty things :(
>
> I am using EEE 901 ( UK keyboard) with debian sid upgraded 5 hours
> back . I installed formware ralink driver 3 hours back . Hope that
> information is sufficient. Shall I paste some logs?

It's really unlikely that the eeepc acpi scripts are the root cause.
They do trigger a suspend when the lid is closed.  But it doesn't
surprise me if the buggy diver bugs out on suspend.

You could disable the automatic suspend by editting
/etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts.
However, you can usually work around such driver bugs by unloading the
module on suspend.

Replace "..." below with the name of the ralink module.

cat >> /etc/pm/sleep.d/10ralink << EOF
#!/bin/bash

SUSPEND_MODULES=$SUSPEND_MODULES ...
EOF

chmod a+x /etc/pm/sleep.d/10ralink

Alan