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

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On Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:07, William Anderle wrote:
> Hi, I still don't think it's a matter of Broadcom or Atheros.
> I've found this little HowTo from Gentoo Linux (not written by me!):
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5024#WiFi
>
> Even with NDISWrapper and Broadcom card, acerhk / acer_acpi are always
> needed for enabling wireless hardware.
> At this point I guess our Acer Aspire 5024WLMi / 5020 are different :/
> Best regards
>

Dear friend
this is simply not true, neither Acer ever would build some specials only for 
me nor you need an adicional software in order to load a driver.

I think you try to catch up from the wrong side, instead of reading linux 
how-tos you better should ndisgen your windows driver on your freebsd distro, 
kldload it, ifconfig it and then use it. Because that is the only thing you 
have to do. 

The only restriction: the LED do not light. I am very much sure that it does 
NOT make any difference if using the broadcom or the atheros device, supposed 
it works on FreeBSD. If your's do not work then you are doing something wrong 
or your wl-card is bad.

The linux acerHK thing is not a bad idea, I mean pressing the WL button and 
the driver loads and connect *BUT* it does not work, least I have not seen it 
yet. 
So for me it does not make ANY sense to load a driver and then type a stupid 
echo cmd in order to get it work and switch the light on ... also you should 
agree aplying simple logic that the linux guys are much more clever than this 
and know how to load an ndis driver without need to type anything ... and on 
my FC4 it working exactly as I said and also again I see no reason why this 
should be different on any other linux distro since the ndis_wrapper is 
universal to any of them,

the only difference I got until today:

Windows and Linux: the WL button LED works

FreeBSD : The WL button LED is dead.

but the WL Broadcom device works fine as supposed so on any of them.

I rechecked the thing you told that the WL Drv is disabled by default and that 
it need the windows acer launch utility. That is not true.

You can uninstall the acer_laucnher and the WL device works absolutely normal.
The only thing this launch app has is an option where you can disable the 
automatic WL activation on boot and re-enable it. But anyway, if disabled or 
not you can enable the driver from your network connection screen whenever 
you want supposed the wl drv is installed.

João














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