Bug#576199: [Debian-eeepc-devel] [Acpi4asus-user] Bug#576199: linux-2.6: ATL1E does not longer work on EEE PC 900A

[Nicholas Chase <nick.nchase21@gmail.com>]

Could this also be what's keeping wi-fi and LAN from working on my 900HA?  Here's my post about it on the debian user forums: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50498

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.
Nicholas Chase

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:09, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 13:25 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 12:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> >
> >> This should have been fixed in recent kernels, and some patchs have
> >> been sent to stable to fix that.
> >> What kernel are you using ?
> >>
> > *I* sent your previous patches to stable because you apparently couldn't
> > be bothered.  I know which models you have blacklisted and the 900A is
> > not one of them.
> >
>
> I'm curious as to why this is only now an issue with 900A, as it seems
> to be a recently developed problem (900A is an older model, supported on
> 2.6.26 since lenny, provided you use the rt2860 module for wifi from
> non-free and atl1e from main).  Do we think this is because newer
> editions of this model have a newer BIOS?  And in that case, is our
> approach wrong?  Should we be focusing on model at all, or on BIOS version?

This problem is due to a new and buggy feature in eeepc-laptop.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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