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The 2.6.26 kernel is now in Lenny and has a few bugs for 701, 900 and 900A eeepc users. We are working through the issues and hope to have them resolved soon. There are however workarounds that will keep your eee usable. Check out DebianEeePC/Bugs/2.6.26 for details.
2.6.25 to 2.6.26 Upgrade Issues/tips
Debians madwifi source package now supports the eeepc chipset so we are no longer packaging our own eeepc-madwifi-source. For those that have the madwifi-eeepc-modules-2.6-686 meta package installed, we have prepared a dummy package that should transition you to the new modules. For those that have the kernel specific madwifi-eeepc-modules installed, before you reboot into your 2.6.26 kernel, install madwifi-modules-2.6-686. This will pull in the latest madwifi-modules available, and keep them up to date when new ones become available. Atl2 modules should be treated as below.
The 2.6.26 kernel also has the laptop_eeepc acpi module in it, so there is no longer any need for the eeepc-modules package. This was built for 2.6.26 for a short while, so if you have the package installed for the 2.6.26 kernel, it should be removed as having two kernel modules loaded for acpi could lead to unpredictable results.
Upgrade issues/tips
- if you are upgrading from an older kernel, make sure you have ethernet/wireless and acpi modules for the new kernel before rebooting. These modules get installed by our installer, but not updated if you install a newer kernel. To fix that do:
apt-get install atl2-modules-2.6-686 madwifi-eeepc-modules-2.6-686 apt-get install eeepc-acpi-modules-2.6-686
For the webcam we do not supply precompiled binary packages, so you have to build them using module-assistant. See DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure for instructions how to do that.
- linux kernel 2.6.24 doesn't need model=3stack-dig anymore, remove it from /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
we now have DebianEeePC/Repository, use it.
- we now no longer use the fragile repacked madwifi-source package, use madwifi-eeepc-source from our repository instead.