Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:16:18 -0500 From: Dave Mischler <jake@mischler.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/165212: [ath] No WiFi on Acer Aspire One 751h (Atheros AR5BHB63 & AR5B95) Message-ID: <1329768978.78961.23.camel@firkin.mischler.com>
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> can you attach this to the PR too? OK. I tried to attach the previous message, too, but I assume the system was unhappy with the 180KB+ log file. > There's no errors here, it's just not RX'ing anything. > > Is there an rfkill switch/button? (ie, some button that > enables/disables wifi?) It may be a function switch? There is such a switch. I have tried playing with it under FreeBSD, and got nowhere. I don't seem to have to touch it under Ubuntu (or maybe I only had to use it once). > Have you loaded > the relevant ACPI module for your laptop (which sometimes maps the > rfkill line to ACPI somehow, I don't know the real details.) Other than having FreeBSD try to use ACPI, I don't know anything about this. This appears in the boot log, and might be relevant: Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: acpi0: <ACRSYS ACRPRDCT> on motherboard Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: ACPI Error: Could not enable PowerButton event (20120215/evxfevnt-217) Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: ACPI Warning: Could not enable fixed event 0x2 (20120215/evxface-575) Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: acpi0: reservation of 3f800000, 70800000 (3) failed Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 Feb 20 16:11:25 halfpint kernel: cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 How do I find out if there is an ACPI module available, and if so, how to load and enable it? When I got this netbook it had a dead hard disk (i.e. no software), and no useful documentation. I have downloaded the available user and quick start guides from Acer but I don't see much useful info.
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