[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc901, Fn+F2 to switch off wifi FREEZE the system; switch on works

[Vic Lee]

Hi,

Thanks, this information is really helpful, and sorry I couldn't find
this before I post here. :)

So this is a kernel driver bug... Hopefully the patch will be merged
into mainline and get into squeeze... I am going to avoid using it at
this moment.

Thanks again.

Vic

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:41 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: 
> On 8/24/09, Vic Lee <llyzs at 163.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just give you a little background for the bug.
> >
> > Yesterday I have a clean install of Lenny then full-upgrade to Squeeze.
> > I use the standard Lenny installer (not the one customized for eeepc!)
> > because I want to test with a "clean" Squeeze system. I did the
> > following steps on my eeepc 901:
> >
> > 1) Install Lenny using standard Debian network installer
> > 2) Change sources.list and full-upgrade to Squeeze immediately
> > 3) Install the following additional packages to make the hardware
> > working:
> > bluetooth
> > firmware-ralink
> > eeepc-acpi-scripts (1.1.1)
> >
> > I even recreate my home directory. So this is a very clean system.
> >
> > Before I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 nothing happen.
> > After I install eeepc-acpi-scripts, fn+f2 freeze my system entirely. But
> > when I hard-boot it, the wifi was indeed disable in BIOS, and I have no
> > problem at all enable it again using fn+f2. But disable it always
> > freeze.
> >
> > Any idea about this or any additional steps I have to do to help to
> > track the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
> That sounds like "rt2860: kernel freezes completely when turning off WiFi"
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390>.
> 
> So you're not the first to report this.  But all we have at the moment
> is a workaround patch for the eeepc-laptop kernel module, and the hope
> that rt2800pci will eventually fix it.
> 
> Regards
> Alan