From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 13:24:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75AD106564A; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:24:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3257C8FC14; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C94256A6619; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:28 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.0x20.net Received: from mail.0x20.net ([217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hRLe_IV2_f5w; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BE3F6A6016; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9VDOSAF083443; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p9VDORgT082501; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from lars) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:27 +0100 From: Lars Engels To: Anthony Jenkins Message-ID: <20111031132427.GN96706@e-new.0x20.net> References: <7003D4EE027640E6A49BFC84DD733D7F@Laptop> <20111028174052.GA1034@tiny> <20111029100803.GA96706@e-new.0x20.net> <1320064924.59175.YahooMailNeo@web39314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Pjk796cY0SfIo9Z2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1320064924.59175.YahooMailNeo@web39314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Adrian Chadd , "irek-kaenly@yandex.ru" , "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" , Matthias Apitz Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:24:30 -0000 --Pjk796cY0SfIo9Z2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:42:04AM -0700, Anthony Jenkins wrote: > >________________________________ > >From: Adrian Chadd > >To: Lars Engels > >Cc: irek-kaenly@yandex.ru; Matthias Apitz ; freebsd-mo= bile@freebsd.org > >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:38 AM > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z > > > >On 29 October 2011 21:08, Lars Engels wrote: > > > >> And cross your fingers that the button to enable / disable wireless > >> works out of the box. Unfortunately there's no port of Linux' acer_acpi > >> [1] to FreeBSD. > >> > >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/ > > > >Please please please, can someone port this? >=20 > Looks like this was already ported to acpi_wmi(4) some time ago (or at le= ast=20 > formed the basis for acpi_wmi(4)), but I can't load it on my Acer Aspire = 5552 without panicking the kernel - seems it tries to construct two=20 > cdevs with the same name.=C2=A0 Looking into a patch now, just to see wha= t it does. I loaded apci_wmi on an Acer notebook and /dev/wmistat was created. Using cat(1) I was presented a table of three GUIDs. Google told me that one of them represented the Wireless / Bluetooth state. But what to do then? acpi_wmi's manpage only says that it can only read the values via wmistat, but not how to alter them. >=20 > ...and I had just downloaded the Linux kernel sources to try my hand at a= port (acer_acpi lives in the Linux kernel now). What is the current proced= ure (if any) for porting GPL'd stuff to BSD? >=20 >=20 > Anthony >=20 >=20 >=20 > >Adrian >=20 --Pjk796cY0SfIo9Z2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk6uoYsACgkQKc512sD3afiUYACeJFfWpo3w4PF4+iLp9Luhvrco GigAn0KKru6Jq8N9V2uDanq3H1Br9Awg =tuZC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pjk796cY0SfIo9Z2--