From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 20:15:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179C216A473; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:15:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) Received: from msrv.matik.com.br (msrv.matik.com.br [200.152.83.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4374A43D45; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:15:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) Received: from anb.matik.com.br (anb.matik.com.br [200.152.88.34] (may be forged)) by msrv.matik.com.br (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k54KF48v022881; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:15:04 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) From: AT Matik Organization: Infomatik To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:15:28 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606041715.29158.asstec@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL, J_CHICKENPOX_24,J_CHICKENPOX_27,J_CHICKENPOX_28,J_CHICKENPOX_46 autolearn=no version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: Antispam Datacenter Matik msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on msrv.matik.com.br X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Mark Linimon , William.Anderle@alice.it Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:15:50 -0000 On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:00, Mark Linimon wrote: > Old Synopsis: AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's lapto= ps > New Synopsis: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling Wi= =46i > on Acer's laptops > > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended > State-Changed-By: linimon > State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 3 18:59:13 UTC 2006 > State-Changed-Why: > Mark this as a feature request and suspend it awaiting a patch from an > interested party. > > To submitter: have you tried running the Windows drivers under the > NDISulator? > Hi=20 I am not so sure if this problem is well expressed. I reported this before = but=20 the PR did not found so much attention. Anyway, what William said is not exactly correct. May be this helps: There is no software enabling of the WL card or the driver. Acer NBs do have a button which en|disable the internal antena *and* switch= =20 the buttom LED on or off. This LED is blinking when not associated to an AP= =20 and stays lid when connected (carrier indication) The Acer Broadcom WL Driver works very good with NDIS. Now. Until 6.0-Beta5 the LED on the button still worked fine. Soon the ndis= =20 driver was kldloaded the LED blinked and was ON when had carrier. Since then the LED is dead but the hardware is fully functional and the ant= ena=20 still can be en|disabled by pressing the WL-Button on the frontside.=20 Like I understand the Linux AcerHK project they like to load|unload the dri= ver=20 by pressing the button what BTW on my Fedora 4 and 5 does also still do not= =20 work. But this is an aditional feature what windows also do not do, the=20 button simply en|disables the antena by default. To get the LED on|off|blinking is a very nice feature to see if the driver = is=20 loaded or has carrier. Since 6.1-Pre another "bad" issue came up, that when the NB crashes then th= e=20 antena do not get enabled by default (even by kldload/unload the driver) an= d=20 need some fiddeling with the WL-button and ifconfig up|down to get it up to= =20 work again. On my NB (aspire 3000) I can check the key codes with 214 WLbutton off 213 WLbutton on which I can associate with `ifconfig ndis0 up|down` in order to disconnect = or=20 reconnect. I believe the bluetooth interface is not working at all under FreeBSD and=20 Linux but I didn't tried it. Jo=E3o A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br