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

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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 
supposed Acer's default to be WinXP and the WL driver installed the LED 
should blink until you press the button to turn it off or goes on when 
associated to an AP or adhoc connection

on linux using ndiswrapper happens exactly the same 

on freebsd when kldloading ndis in loader.conf it is the same too *but* the 
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 the 
NDIS driver as said BUT without any LED activity

using the same NB running ndis on FC4 I get the same result but *with* correct 
led behavior


I believe the linux acerHK driver can not be compared because it's purpose is 
a different one what btw should be the reason that you see something in dmesg 
when pressing the button 

>
> 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 

I am using the bcom w/o any problem with NDIS since 5.4 and never had any 
problem but the led thing

João







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