eee 1000h sleep disables wireless in bios

[rockstar]

I put a fresh copy of 9.04 netbook remix on my eee 1000h and it worked fine. After I ran updates, the wireless stopped working. I discovered that every time my computer would go to sleep, it would disable wireless in the BIOS. The only way to fix it that I know of is to reset it, enter the bios and re-enable it. There was a similar thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1218753&highlight=1000h+wireless&page=2 but that didn't really solve the problem or come to any conclusion on how to fix it. I don't see why updating the wireless drivers would keep it from messing up my BIOS. any suggestions? thanks

here are some outputs. thanks again

01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
Subsystem: RaLink Device 2790
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at fbef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/5 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Kernel driver in use: rt2860
Kernel modules: rt2860sta

paul@eee-1000h:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

paul@eee-1000h:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
PCI (sysfs)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: L1e Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Attansic Technology Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: b0
serial: 00:23:54:3c:20:30
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ATL1E driverversion=1.0.0.7-NAPI firmware=L1e latency=0 module=atl1e multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2860
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: 00:22:43:42:c6:2e
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2860 ip=192.168.0.103 latency=0 module=rt2860sta multicast=yes wireless=RT2860 Wireless
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: e2:31:f9:6f:d4:f2
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes



eth0 no wireless extensions.

ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"disfunction" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:CA:40:FA
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=96/100 Signal level:-70 dBm Noise level:-81 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

[Chronon]

Weird. Going to sleep makes my backlight stop working until I log out and back in again. No issues with wireless, though.

One other odd behavior on my Eee PC 1000HEB is associated with hooking up an external monitor. It appears that when I do this, the functionality of Fn + F8 changes from switching the screen to another "increase brightness" action. Some kind of ACPI bugs maybe?