Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:28:23 +0200 From: William Anderle <William.Anderle@Alice.iT> To: AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops Message-ID: <44842367.3070008@Alice.iT> In-Reply-To: <200606041715.29158.asstec@matik.com.br> References: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> <200606041715.29158.asstec@matik.com.br>
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AT Matik ha scritto: > [CUT] > 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 > the buttom LED on or off. This LED is blinking when not associated to an AP > and stays lid when connected (carrier indication) > > The Acer Broadcom WL Driver works very good with NDIS. > > [CUT] Hi Joćo, I'm sorry but at least on my Acer 5024WLMi (and in theory so on all 3020 / 5020 series) the situation is different. Enabling / disabling internal antenna by just pressing the button without software loaded do *not* work. I was not speaking of an aesthetical thing. If the radio is off, the led is off; if radio is on, led is on. I cannot have radio on with led off. I've done a fast try on Windows XP: if I close Acer "launch manager", pressing the WLAN becomes useless. The same on FreeBSD with if_ath driver (I changed original Broadcom card with an Atheros one); pressing WLAN button doesn't enable WiFi, and dmesg shows no information about keys being pressed. Best regards
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