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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:44:56 -0300
From:      AT Matik <asstec@matik.com.br>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org>, William Anderle <William.Anderle@alice.it>
Subject:   Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
Message-ID:  <200606051044.57456.asstec@matik.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <44842E01.2020508@Alice.iT>
References:  <200606031900.k53J0xJ9057426@freefall.freebsd.org> <200606050946.07203.asstec@matik.com.br> <44842E01.2020508@Alice.iT>

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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







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