[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#501498: Bug#501498: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Fn-F2 turns wireless off, but never back on

[John Goerzen]

Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| John Goerzen, Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:55:07PM -0500 |=-
>> I have an Eee 901.
>>
>> Pressing Fn-F2, the wireless toggle key, will turn wireless off but it
>> never comes back.  Looking at /sys, it did properly echo 0 to it to
>> turn it off and echo 1 to return it.  It also properly reloaded the
>> wireless module, but that module never saw the card.  ra0 never
>> reappeared.
>>
>> The older script I used involved using pciehp, but that trick doesn't
>> seem to work on 2.6.26.
> 
> Do you have "pciehp" in /etc/modules and "options pciehp 

No.

> pciehp_force=1 pciehp_slot_with_bus=1" in /etc/modprobe.d/local?

No.

But making both of those changes fixed the problem for me.

> I have removed the pciehp mangling in the script as /etc/modules 
> (modprobe.d) looks like a more appropriate place for it.
> 
> Would adding this to README.Debian have helped you?

Honestly it might not have, but it really should have :-)

I would say a debconf note in addition might be warranted here.  Some
others might not even know this package is involved.

-- John