FSCA16xx & Ubuntu 8.10

One week from the official release and Ubuntu 8.10 support was added to the fsca16xx script.

One bump though:
Currently there is a bug and yet another bug in Ubuntu 8.10 that causes it to load 2 different drivers (ath_pci && ath5k) for the Atheros wireless adapter. This causes the wireless not to work.

The script update does not handle this as it affects most of the people that use a wireless Atheros adapter and not just FSC laptops. It should be delt with by the Ubuntu Kernel team.

acer_acpi & seg faults

In my attempts to modify acer_acpi and add it the required key pooling, I bumped into a problem...

Segmentation faults, lots of them...

I tried the latest acer_acpi code and had similar results.

Reason for seg faults:
kernel 2.6.27 - at least the one in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

Reverting to 2.6.26 made the seg faults go away but the modified module still has not shown signs of doing what I told it to do... :S