I got the same problem after updating my sid (I didn't update it for ages). I have a Dell Latitude E6400.
There are basically two ways to make it work again : - the simplest : blacklist dell_laptop echo "blacklist dell_laptop" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_dell_laptop.conf inconvenient : dell_laptop isn't loaded. I don't know what it does. - somewhat more difficult : update your bios Since I had some problems to be able to update my bios on Debian, I wrote some detailed walkthrough on my blog : http://www.everlong.org/blog/index.php/post/2009/12/How-to-update-the-BIOS-firmware-on-a-Dell-Laptop-using-only-Debian-Linux I guess this resolves also the problems in bug #544319 and bug #544321. What should we do in Debian ? Should we try to workaround this broken bios ? The problem is that... it used to work before, even if it wasn't perfect (I had to restart network-manager each time I used the rfkill switch, now it works perfectly). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
