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 f= or=20 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=20 how-tos you better should ndisgen your windows driver on your freebsd distr= o,=20 kldload it, ifconfig it and then use it. Because that is the only thing you= =20 have to do.=20 The only restriction: the LED do not light. I am very much sure that it doe= s=20 NOT make any difference if using the broadcom or the atheros device, suppos= ed=20 it works on FreeBSD. If your's do not work then you are doing something wro= ng=20 or your wl-card is bad. The linux acerHK thing is not a bad idea, I mean pressing the WL button and= =20 the driver loads and connect *BUT* it does not work, least I have not seen = it=20 yet.=20 So for me it does not make ANY sense to load a driver and then type a stupi= d=20 echo cmd in order to get it work and switch the light on ... also you shoul= d=20 agree aplying simple logic that the linux guys are much more clever than th= is=20 and know how to load an ndis driver without need to type anything ... and o= n=20 my FC4 it working exactly as I said and also again I see no reason why this= =20 should be different on any other linux distro since the ndis_wrapper is=20 universal to any of them, the only difference I got until today: Windows and Linux: the WL button LED works =46reeBSD : 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 t= hat=20 it need the windows acer launch utility. That is not true. You can uninstall the acer_laucnher and the WL device works absolutely norm= al. The only thing this launch app has is an option where you can disable the=20 automatic WL activation on boot and re-enable it. But anyway, if disabled o= r=20 not you can enable the driver from your network connection screen whenever= =20 you want supposed the wl drv is installed. 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
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