For me, at least, the first place to put such an important note is in the wiki page of the project.
It is actually there - but in a sort of an obscured and confusing way - as some hack that some user did to get things work. As this is now the standard way in which wireless should work in the 901, I think it should be mentioned there in a very clear way in the wiki. I. On 08/10/2008, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
