[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#544217: Got it to work again

[Julien Wajsberg]

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).