[Bug 404626] Re: Turning wifi "off" using Fn+F2 on Eee PC with Ralink rt2860 results in kernel panic (rfkill)

[MrAuer]

My Eee 901 also periodically hangs when suspending, or resuming from
suspend. Is this perhaps related? I took a picture of the screen the one
time I was able to get into a terminal before it went completely
unresponsive. Sadly the picture is out of focus so its hard to make out
what it says. Last few lines are something about devkit-power and
libgobject. Ill include the pic anyway. Other times the machine simply
hangs, a few times Ive clicked Suspend, after which nothing at all
happens and I cant open the shutdown menu anymore. Killing X at this
point leads to hanging and only powerdown from powerbutton works. Other
times again, wlan goes off, machine suspends, comes back from suspend
fine and even wlan comes back up.

I would really rather have the release set back and these issues fixed.
I had serious issues with Jaunty as well, and after latest updates to
Jaunty, my wlan stopped working completely in that as well - I can
switch it on and off but network manager never registers it - which is
why I bit the bullet and installed Karmic RC anyway. Which did not much
improve the situation, sadly. At least suspend worked on Jaunty...

Also, does the "feel free to run the 2.6.31.5 mainline kernel build:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.31.5/" fix the
suspend issue? Should I make another bug report of the suspend issue, or
is there already one open? Is that going to be fixed? I will try that
kernel anyway, cant hurt. Will report my experience back.

Also, I agree with what Andrew Wyatt said above. I was waiting for
Karmic to fix the Intel video driver bugs and the periodic hard locks I
had with Jaunty, but instead now it is worse with Karmic - and Jaunty
updates stopped wlan working as well. That it might work on some other
netbooks is hardly comforting. I have been using Ubuntu since Warty, and
have installed it for several other people. The bugs that are present in
final releases has been the biggest complaint for several people - and
personally, I feel that making Ubuntu more stable and bug free should be
more important than keeping some release date. One person of these
actually went and bought a Mac after some frustrating stability issues
across 2 releases (Hardy and Intrepid).

So please consider fixing these issues before release rather than after.

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Turning wifi "off" using Fn+F2 on Eee PC with Ralink rt2860 results in kernel panic (rfkill)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404626
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