thermal shutdown

Yesterday I updated the packages on my EeePC. The debian Lenny repository had some updates, included the 2.6.26 kernel. The whole process was pretty smooth, except for an annoying behavior that I discovered after the first reboot.

As reported in this thread from the Linux Kernel Mailing List, seems that the ACPI support is somehow broken, and this causes a thermal shutdown nearly immediately after the boot process has finished.

Booting the laptop with the 2.6.25 kernel still works fine, except that the only connectivity available is the wireless one - the built-in ethernet stopped to work - so I'll just wait for some kind of updated package, hoping it will hit the repositories before Lenny gets released :)

Update

Loading the 2.6.26 kernel with the noacpi option seems to work fine as well, and the ethernet connection works again.

[2008-09-12] Solved

Install the following packages: