Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:24:27 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "irek-kaenly@yandex.ru" <irek-kaenly@yandex.ru>, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z Message-ID: <20111031132427.GN96706@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <1320064924.59175.YahooMailNeo@web39314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <7003D4EE027640E6A49BFC84DD733D7F@Laptop> <20111028174052.GA1034@tiny> <20111029100803.GA96706@e-new.0x20.net> <CAJ-Vmo=1kRi-LxnoX-12qLxmmoqqVxA%2B22KqK%2Bt7aYYMsUs8aQ@mail.gmail.com> <1320064924.59175.YahooMailNeo@web39314.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--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 <adrian@freebsd.org> > >To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> > >Cc: irek-kaenly@yandex.ru; Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>; 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 <lars.engels@0x20.net> 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--
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