<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Could this also be what's keeping wi-fi and LAN from working on my 900HA? Â Here's my post about it on the debian user forums:Â <a href="http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50498" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 88, 181); ">http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50498</a><div>
<a href="http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50498" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 88, 181); "></a>Currently I'm running Ubuntu because it works and debian doesn't (for me, with my current knowledge of linux) but I'd rather be part of the Debian community.<br clear="all">
<font color="#888888">Nicholas Chase</font></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:09, Ben Hutchings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk">ben@decadent.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 13:25 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:<br>
> On 04/03/2010 12:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:<br>
> > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> This should have been fixed in recent kernels, and some patchs have<br>
> >> been sent to stable to fix that.<br>
> >> What kernel are you using ?<br>
> >><br>
> > *I* sent your previous patches to stable because you apparently couldn't<br>
> > be bothered. Â I know which models you have blacklisted and the 900A is<br>
> > not one of them.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> I'm curious as to why this is only now an issue with 900A, as it seems<br>
> to be a recently developed problem (900A is an older model, supported on<br>
> 2.6.26 since lenny, provided you use the rt2860 module for wifi from<br>
> non-free and atl1e from main). Â Do we think this is because newer<br>
> editions of this model have a newer BIOS? Â And in that case, is our<br>
> approach wrong? Â Should we be focusing on model at all, or on BIOS version?<br>
<br>
</div>This problem is due to a new and buggy feature in eeepc-laptop.<br>
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Ben.<br>
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--<br>
Ben Hutchings<br>
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.<br>
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