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

[William Anderle]

AT Matik ha scritto:
> [CUT]
> Anyway, what William said is not exactly correct. May be this helps:
>
> There is no software enabling of the WL card or the driver.
>
> Acer NBs do have a button which en|disable the internal antena *and* switch 
> the buttom LED on or off. This LED is blinking when not associated to an AP 
> and stays lid when connected (carrier indication)
>
> The Acer Broadcom WL Driver works very good with NDIS.
>
>   
[CUT]

Hi João,
I'm sorry but at least on my Acer 5024WLMi (and in theory so on all 3020 
/ 5020 series) the situation is different.
Enabling / disabling internal antenna by just pressing the button 
without software loaded do *not* work.
I was not speaking of an aesthetical thing. If the radio is off, the led 
is off; if radio is on, led is on.
I cannot have radio on with led off.
I've done a fast try on Windows XP: if I close Acer "launch manager", 
pressing the WLAN becomes useless.
The same on FreeBSD with if_ath driver (I changed original Broadcom card 
with an Atheros one); pressing WLAN button doesn't enable WiFi, and 
dmesg shows no information about keys being pressed.
Best regards