acerhk should be autoloaded on Amilo A1650g

[damagedspline]

On Ubuntu Intrepid 32bit when running on Fujitsu-Seimens Amilo A1650g:

Please add to '/etc/modprobe.d/options' the following line:
"options acerhk autowlan=1"

and the following to /etc/modules:
"acerhk"

$ cat /var/lib/acpi-support/*-*
R01-A1I
FUJITSU SIEMENS
AMILO A1650G
-1

A similar fix should be done with Amilo LI1718
except that: "options acerhk force_series=6805 autowlan=1"

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Reassigning this to the module-init-tools package. Thanks.

[Albert (optimisme)]

Also in Acer Aspire 5020 series, acerhk module should be loaded by default.

modprobe acerhk
(well, adding acerhk into /etc/modules)

Would be nice also if after loading the module, wireless is automatically activated:

echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled

(I use it at /etc/rc.local, I don't know if it is "the right way")

The command: tail -f /var/log/kern.log doesn't show "hot keys"

(PD: My files "lspci.txt" and "dmesg.txt" are the result of loading the module and activating wireless at boot time, as described)

[Albert (optimisme)]

(lspci from last post)

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

It is not normal to add specific module load entries for modules of this kind to the distro as a whole, specific machine quirks do not normally affect what is install. If it did the disk would not be generic if moved to another machine. Normally these kinds of modules are keyed to the hardware they service and are autoloaded via PCI ids or via DMI information matches; which this driver does not expose.

I note that the autohk driver is actually downrev as found in our kernel so it is likely worth updating it, but it appears that this driver is now unmaintained. There seems to be a replacement driver called acer-wmi which looks to be the place we should be concentrating any effort to fix/add these features.

For those of you who have this hardware does the acer-wmi module load at all, and if not what messages do you get on the console and at the end of dmesg if you 'sudo modprobe acer-wmi'.

If you could report that back here that would be helpful.

[damagedspline (icpazi)]

acer-wmi does not provide hotkey pooling support as in the acerhk case.
I made an attempt to add hotkey pooling support to the acer-wmi code but it failed.
acer-wmi can be used to auto-activate wireless led on startup - which can be a replacement to the acerhk wireless on/off button support. That would be appreciated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Per a decision made by the Ubuntu Kernel Team, bugs will longer be assigned to the ubuntu-kernel-team in Launchpad as part of the bug triage process. The ubuntu-kernel-team is being unassigned from this bug report. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies for more information. Thanks.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This kind of thing is properly done in the kernel, for which there is already a task open

[John Tait (johntait1-waitrose)]

Who is going to fix this problem with the hotkeys and wireless for Amilo 1718 and 1650 users ? if the kernel team have reassigned it to the module-init-tools team and they think it should be done in the kernel ???

[sattila (sattila-vipmail)]

It is working well on a FS a1650g, but if after I change the mac address of the wireless card it not connecting ...
The ifconfig show as well, but not working.
Any idea ?
Thanks