[hsflinux] laptop turns itself off?

Ingo Kappler ingo.kappler at web.de
Sun Jul 14 11:18:13 EDT 2002


Am Samstag, 13. Juli 2002 14:56 schrieb Thomas White:
> Sebastian Stein wrote:
> > Has anybody of you using the hsflinux modem driver noticed,
> > that the laptop
> > restarted itself during an internet connection? I had this for
> > 2 times in the last days. I am not sure if this behaviour is
> > caused by the acpi kernel
> > patch or the hsf driver. Maybe it is something else but I need
> > to find a starting point.
>
> Yes - I'm having similar problems.  I find my computer doesn't
> quite get as far as rebooting though: the screen goes blank and
> sometimes there's a continuous, regular beep-beep sound coming
> from the speakers.  I think this problem's known about though:
> http://www.mbsi.ca/pipermail/hsflinux/2002q2/000259.html
>
> I'm using a Sony Vaio PCG-FX401 with the acpi-20020709 patch
> (plus a small bugfix patch from the ACPI mailing list to prevent
> the Kernel from panicing at bootup).  My modem is the 1106:3068
> type with the
> hsflinmodem-5.03.03.L3mbsibeta02062500 driver.  Kernel is 2.4.18
> vanilla with only the ACPI patches added.  Distribution is Debian
> "Woody".
>
> I had the exact same problem with the latest-but-one version of
> ACPI too. Reading the mailing list archives came up with a few
> possible solutions but none of them worked for me.
> ______________________
> Thomas White
> Downing College
> Cambridge

You are not alone I had this problem too. I'm using also a Sony 
Vaio PCG-FX401 and decided to wait for the nest release of the 
driver.

Ingo




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