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

[William Anderle]

>Number:         98162
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 30 18:30:14 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     William Anderle
>Release:        6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD Scarface.willytp.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0
>Description:
On Acer laptops, we need a special driver to "software enable" some peripherals like WiFi and Bluetooth, otherwise the peripheral won't work even if the correct driver is loaded and recognizes it
For better understanding, I copy here a part of AcerHK documentation:

"Q: I know that wireless hardware is supported on my Aspire 1690/TravelMate4600,
but I cannot get it to work, why?

A: On these model (and similar) the wireless hardware is controlled on two
different levels. One is controlled by acerhk's xxxled file, the other level
is controlled by the key itself. To actually activate the hardware you need to
write '1' to the xxled file and you need to press the corresponding button.
Example:
echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled
<if still not working, press Wlan button>"
>How-To-Repeat:
The problem can be repeated on any recent Acer's laptop.
>Fix:
The problem is already fixed on Linux on i386 and AMD64 platforms through the following drivers:
AcerHK for i386
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/
Acer_Acpi for AMD64
http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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