From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 12:28:23 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 C2F6C16A492; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:28:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from william.anderle@alice.it) Received: from out.alice.it (smtp-out01.alice.it [85.33.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BB043D48; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:28:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from william.anderle@alice.it) Received: from FBCMMO02.fbc.local ([192.168.68.196]) by out.alice.it with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:28:21 +0200 Received: from client.alice.it ([192.168.68.142]) by FBCMMO02.fbc.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:28:21 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([87.0.32.7]) by client.alice.it with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:28:21 +0200 Message-ID: <44842367.3070008@Alice.iT> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:28:23 +0200 From: William Anderle User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AT Matik References: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> <200606041715.29158.asstec@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <200606041715.29158.asstec@matik.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jun 2006 12:28:21.0403 (UTC) FILETIME=[8842DEB0:01C6889B] Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon 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: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:28:28 -0000 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