[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#527601: eeepc-acpi-scripts: PCI hotplug error in wireless startup (901)

[Darren Salt]

I demand that d.haley may or may not have written...

> After upgrading to 2.6.26-2 from squeeze, I found that my wireless no
> longer worked reliably. Wireless would occasionally function at initial
> boot, and would not work after Fn+F2.

> Following instructions from:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2008-August/000883.html

> I found that the following patch was needed to
> /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh to fix the problem. I have no idea if this is
> the correct or appropriate method to solve this problem, however it works
> for me.
> --- wireless.sh.orig	2009-05-08 22:07:38.000000000 +1000
> +++ wireless.sh	2009-05-08 22:14:28.000000000 +1000
> @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
>      on|enable|1)
>  	if [ "$STATE" = 0 ]; then
>  	    echo 1 > $wlan_control
> +    	    modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1 pciehp_slot_with_bus=1
[snip]

NAK, since it'll break things with (some) later kernels.

Anyway, that module should already be loaded with exactly those options (see
/etc/init.d/eeepc-acpi-scripts and /sys/module/pciehp/parameters/*); if
something's unloading it, that's what needs to be fixed.

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