[Debian-eeepc-devel] More on 901 + 2.6.31

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ben Armstrong, Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:58:37AM -0400 |=-
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:48:29 +0200
> Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> > 1. Toggling Wi-Fi with Fn+F2 works. Really cool.
> > 2. Resuming with Wi-Fi enabled still locks the kernel.
> > 
> > The joy of 1. was quickly smashed by a note in 2.6.32-rc7 
> > changelog[0]:
> > 
> >   Revert "eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless 
> >   when associated"
> 
> But my understanding of this is that there is a bug in rt2860sta which
> was solved (supposedly) correctly in 2.6.32-rc7, so our workaround in
> eeepc-laptop was supposed to be reverted, as it caused problems for
> non-rt2860 systems, and the bug fix in rt2860sta itself was all that
> was needed.  So this changelog, in and of itself, should not be
> alarming.

Ah, right!

> That being said, if the kernel still panics ... bleah ...  I thought 
> we had this all worked out.  Did the rt2860sta fix somehow miss the 
> cut for rc7?

I am testing 2.6.31 from Debian/sid. This is what turns wireless off 
without hassle and locks if it is enabled on resume.

I am not sure if the Fn+F2 fix was supposed to fix resume too.

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dam
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