Pressing EEEPC 900HD wireless hotkey makes system freeze with black screen.
Bug #433729 reported by
Montel Edwards
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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acpi (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: eeepc-acpi-scripts
When I pressed the EEEPC wireless hotkey (Fn key + F2) it made the system freeze then go to a black screen. It will 100% disable the wireless adapter too.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 20 19:28:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
affects: | eeepc-acpi-scripts (Ubuntu) → acpi (Ubuntu) |
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Is the staging driver update from lkml relevent here:
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Darren Salt <email address hidden>
commit 0af49167b1e5ba1 54e90d2c454bf46 24ee47df80 upstream.
This fixes a panic which is triggered when the hardware "disappears" from
beneath the driver, i.e. when wireless is toggled off via Fn-F2 on various
EeePC models.
Ref. bug report http:// bugzilla. kernel. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=13390 bugzilla. kernel. org/attachment. cgi?id= 21928
panic http://
Signed-off-by: Darren Salt <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
--- staging/ rt2860/ common/ cmm_data_ 2860.c | 2 ++
drivers/
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/ staging/ rt2860/ common/ cmm_data_ 2860.c staging/ rt2860/ common/ cmm_data_ 2860.c TxCpuIdx;
+++ b/drivers/
@@ -363,6 +363,8 @@ int RtmpPCIMgmtKickOut(
ULONG SwIdx = pAd->MgmtRing.
pTxD = (PTXD_STRUC) pAd->MgmtRing. Cell[SwIdx] .AllocVa;
+ if (!pTxD)
+ return 0;
pAd-> MgmtRing. Cell[SwIdx] .pNdisPacket = pPacket; MgmtRing. Cell[SwIdx] .pNextNdisPacke t = NULL;
pAd->