Summary: | [new driver] [request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops | ||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | William Anderle <William.Anderle> |
Component: | kern | Assignee: | Adrian Chadd <adrian> |
Status: | Open --- | ||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | 6.1-RELEASE | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any |
Description
William Anderle
2006-05-30 19:30:14 UTC
As far as I know, FreeBSD's kernels seems to lack the feature of enabling-disabling wireless radio. I think this bug is connected with i386/94141 State Changed From-To: open->suspended Mark this as a feature request and suspend it awaiting a patch from an interested party. To submitter: have you tried running the Windows drivers under the NDISulator? 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. Even with NDISulator I think it won't work. Here is it a little HowTo from Gentoo Linux: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Acer_Aspire_5024#WiFi Even with NDISWrapper, acerhk / acer_acpi are always needed for enabling wireless hardware. I just hope some developer will make a port for FreeBSD. Best regards The same thing is neccessery with Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO A1650G Turion64 same driver - acer_acpi is needed for enabling atheros chipset So for now i cant use bsd on my laptop with network. regards Artur Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->adrian I'll take a crack at this; I have some relevant hardware. batch change: For bugs that match the following - Status Is In progress AND - Untouched since 2018-01-01. AND - Affects Base System OR Documentation DO: Reset to open status. Note: I did a quick pass but if you are getting this email it might be worthwhile to double check to see if this bug ought to be closed. |