[Debian-eeepc-devel] [Acpi4asus-user] Bug#576199: linux-2.6: ATL1E does not longer work on EEE PC 900A

[Corentin Chary]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 01:32 +0000, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:30:52 +0100, Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > If you add 'blacklist eeepc-laptop' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and
>> > then reboot, does the atl1e driver work again?
>> Yes :) That works.
>>
>> Just removing eeepc-laptop or removing + removing/reinstalling atl1e does
>> not work by the way (I mean without adding it to blacklist+rebooting)
> [...]
>
> It looks like this is yet another Eee model where eeepc-laptop is
> hotplugging the wired network controller (similar to bug #573607)
> instead of the wireless network controller.
>
> eeepc-laptop should use a whitelist of those models where 01:00.0 is the
> correct address, or some other method to find the correct address.  What
> it's doing now is dangerously wrong.
>
> Ben.
>

This should have been fixed in recent kernels, and some patchs have
been sent to stable to fix that.
What kernel are you using ?

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