[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug also applies to 1001ha

[John Vodden]

Hi

I notice that the bug mentioned on the wiki wrt 1005ha also applies
1001ha. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14570 (I think these
models are quite similar.)

My symptoms are that if I disable wireless via hotkeys (rfkill?) _and
reboot_ then the wired interface does not appear in lspci and
consequently doesn't work. Re-enabling wifi and rebooting fixes it. Just
disabling wifi doesn't kill the network card whilst the machine is
running. I report this as I have not seen exactly these symptoms
described anywhere so there may be some difference. Applying the kernel
patch listed above and disabling hotplug for the eee module appears to
fix the problem. Am I losing any functionality by doing this? I can't
see how I could hotplug anthing that eee cares about anyway!

As a sidenote, the wiki model page has a ? for silver hotkeys for the
model (I wonder if I am the only debian user using it as it appears to have
been quite a shortlived model.) I have one silver hotkey that isn't the
power button. This button is for disabling the keypad and only worked
for me after I hacked the script which detected kernel version. Perhaps
my kernel version is in a different format because it is not a debian
kernel?? I intend to upgrade to squeeze in the near future so will hold
off reporting this problem seriously until then, in case something has
changed.

Finally, some months ago I was discussing the wifi module for this
driver (rt3090sta) with this group. I have been away (still am...) and
will get back to this on my return. The plan was to submit bug reports
quickly but sometimes life gets in the way!

I hope this information is of some use!

John

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