kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops

Willy TP WillyTP at GMail.com
Sat Jun 3 18:40:18 PDT 2006


The following reply was made to PR kern/98162; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Willy TP <WillyTP at GMail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,  William.Anderle at Alice.it
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling
 WiFi on Acer's laptops
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:37:15 +0200

 Hi, actually I haven't tried with NDISulator, but I don't think it will 
 help.
 Even in Windows, for enabling/disabling WiFi radio we have to install a 
 program from Acer, called "Launch Manager".
 Under FreeBSD, I tried this trick for making WiFi driver (in my case, 
 if_ath) working:
 1)Launch Linux
 2)Enable wireless radio through AcerHK driver (echo 1 > 
 /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled)
 3)*Soft* reboot into FreeBSD
 If WiFi configuration is correct, it will work as it should be.
 
 For discovering if the WiFi radio is actually on, I followed this procedure:
 1)AP turned on
 2)Run this command:
 
 ifconfig ath0 list ap
 
 If nothing is shown, WLAN hardware is disabled.
 Next days I'll try with NDISulator and report.


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