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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:20:09 GMT
From:      Dave Mischler <jake@mischler.com>
To:        freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/165212: [ath] No WiFi on Acer Aspire One 751h (Atheros AR5BHB63 & AR5B95)
Message-ID:  <201202202020.q1KKK9vB014656@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/165212; it has been noted by GNATS.

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)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:16:18 -0500

 > 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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