Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:03:33 -0300 From: AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br> To: William Anderle <William.Anderle@alice.it> 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: <200606061103.34420.asstec@matik.com.br> In-Reply-To: <44857E2B.8050504@Alice.iT> References: <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> <200606051044.57456.asstec@matik.com.br> <44857E2B.8050504@Alice.iT>
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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:07, William Anderle wrote: > Hi, I still don't think it's a matter of Broadcom or Atheros. > I've found this little HowTo from Gentoo Linux (not written by me!): > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5024#WiFi > > Even with NDISWrapper and Broadcom card, acerhk / acer_acpi are always > needed for enabling wireless hardware. > At this point I guess our Acer Aspire 5024WLMi / 5020 are different :/ > Best regards > Dear friend this is simply not true, neither Acer ever would build some specials only for me nor you need an adicional software in order to load a driver. I think you try to catch up from the wrong side, instead of reading linux how-tos you better should ndisgen your windows driver on your freebsd distro, kldload it, ifconfig it and then use it. Because that is the only thing you have to do. The only restriction: the LED do not light. I am very much sure that it does NOT make any difference if using the broadcom or the atheros device, supposed it works on FreeBSD. If your's do not work then you are doing something wrong or your wl-card is bad. The linux acerHK thing is not a bad idea, I mean pressing the WL button and the driver loads and connect *BUT* it does not work, least I have not seen it yet. So for me it does not make ANY sense to load a driver and then type a stupid echo cmd in order to get it work and switch the light on ... also you should agree aplying simple logic that the linux guys are much more clever than this and know how to load an ndis driver without need to type anything ... and on my FC4 it working exactly as I said and also again I see no reason why this should be different on any other linux distro since the ndis_wrapper is universal to any of them, the only difference I got until today: Windows and Linux: the WL button LED works FreeBSD : The WL button LED is dead. but the WL Broadcom device works fine as supposed so on any of them. I rechecked the thing you told that the WL Drv is disabled by default and that it need the windows acer launch utility. That is not true. You can uninstall the acer_laucnher and the WL device works absolutely normal. The only thing this launch app has is an option where you can disable the automatic WL activation on boot and re-enable it. But anyway, if disabled or not you can enable the driver from your network connection screen whenever you want supposed the wl drv is installed. Joćo A mensagem foi scaneada pelo sistema de e-mail e pode ser considerada segura. Service fornecido pelo Datacenter Matik https://datacenter.matik.com.br
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