hmm, on Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:00:20AM +0200, Rolf Sommerhalder said that
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> Just found that my previous analysis was flawed. The problem is not
> related to the length of the patch cable. lii(4) comes up correctly if
> the eeePC is connected to the switch at the time when the eeePC is
> powered on. However, if the eeePC is not plugged in to the switch at
> powerup, then there seems to be no way to bring the link up later.
> Even a reboot does not help. Only cycling power appears to bring up
> the link to active state, and independent of the length of the patch
> cable.

interesting.  might be connected to the fact that in 4.3 current as of
may 19 with acpi enabled and apm disabled (on the 910 bios) acpibat does
not drop into ddb anymore and the battery level is reported.  only when i
pull the plug, the machine freezes.

-f
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he's teflon brain (nothing sticks).