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From: William Anderle <William.Anderle@Alice.it>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
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>Number:         98162
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [new driver] [request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    adrian
>State:          suspended
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 30 18:30:14 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 24 23:10:59 UTC 2013
>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:

From: Willy TP <WillyTP@GMail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  William.Anderle@Alice.it
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/98162: AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's
 laptops
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 02:00:40 +0200

 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 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 3 18:59:13 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
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? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=98162 

From: Willy TP <WillyTP@GMail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  William.Anderle@Alice.it
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling
 WiFi on Acer's laptops
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:37:15 +0200

 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.

From: William Anderle <William.Anderle@Alice.iT>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  William.Anderle@Alice.it
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling
 WiFi on Acer's laptops
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:03:06 +0200

 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

From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Artur_Ba=E6?= <artur@ebasoft.com.pl>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>,
	<William.Anderle@Alice.it>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/98162: [feature request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:29:55 +0200

 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

From: "The Captain" <pugwash01@live.co.uk>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, <William.Anderle@Alice.it>
Subject: Re: kern/98162: [request] AcerHK driver port needed for enabling WiFi on Acer's laptops
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:22:32 -0000
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Is there any progress on this issue, specifically for the =
Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO laptops ?

Thanks, Kev

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Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->adrian 
Responsible-Changed-By: adrian 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 23 15:51:39 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take a crack at this; I have some relevant hardware. 


http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=98162 
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