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 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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