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

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Sat Apr 3 17:09:45 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 13:25 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 12:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> >    
> >> This should have been fixed in recent kernels, and some patchs have
> >> been sent to stable to fix that.
> >> What kernel are you using ?
> >>      
> > *I* sent your previous patches to stable because you apparently couldn't
> > be bothered.  I know which models you have blacklisted and the 900A is
> > not one of them.
> >    
> 
> I'm curious as to why this is only now an issue with 900A, as it seems 
> to be a recently developed problem (900A is an older model, supported on 
> 2.6.26 since lenny, provided you use the rt2860 module for wifi from 
> non-free and atl1e from main).  Do we think this is because newer 
> editions of this model have a newer BIOS?  And in that case, is our 
> approach wrong?  Should we be focusing on model at all, or on BIOS version?

This problem is due to a new and buggy feature in eeepc-laptop.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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