From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 5 13:45:15 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 A143816AC18; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:45:15 +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 8191943D62; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:45:14 +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 k55Dj6P6062685; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:45:07 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from asstec@matik.com.br) From: AT Matik Organization: Infomatik To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:44:56 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> <200606050946.07203.asstec@matik.com.br> <44842E01.2020508@Alice.iT> In-Reply-To: <44842E01.2020508@Alice.iT> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606051044.57456.asstec@matik.com.br> X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (msrv.matik.com.br) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,SMILEY autolearn=unavailable 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 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 13:45:20 -0000 On Monday 05 June 2006 10:13, William Anderle wrote: > > Let's sum up: when I power on notebook, the led is of and wifi's radio > is off. As default, WiFi's radio is disabled. :S don't know ... I believe this is not the Acer default, the radio is on by default and=20 supposed Acer's default to be WinXP and the WL driver installed the LED=20 should blink until you press the button to turn it off or goes on when=20 associated to an AP or adhoc connection on linux using ndiswrapper happens exactly the same=20 on freebsd when kldloading ndis in loader.conf it is the same too *but* the= =20 led do not light anymore since 6.0-B5 > In FreeBSD, after I login led is off, radio is off, dmesg shows no > events after pressing WiFi's button. funny thing isn't it? but i believe we are still not completly synced ;) I can tell about the broadcom HW which works for me here on releng_6 with t= he=20 NDIS driver as said BUT without any LED activity using the same NB running ndis on FC4 I get the same result but *with* corr= ect=20 led behavior I believe the linux acerHK driver can not be compared because it's purpose = is=20 a different one what btw should be the reason that you see something in dme= sg=20 when pressing the button=20 > > I changed the miniPCI card, since differently from Broadcom's one > Atheros' card is natively supported in Linux and FreeBSD too. Anyway, I > had the same problem even with old Broadcom's one loaded via NDISWrapper > (on Linux). > I believe the difference we see must then be based on ath/bcom=20 I am using the bcom w/o any problem with NDIS since 5.4 and never had any=20 problem but the led thing 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