ASUS K-series laptops: cannot toggle antenna via /sys/class/net/$dev/rfkill/rfkill$int/state

[Leonid Nasedkin]

Binary package hint: acpi-support

Ubuntu 10.04
acpi-support 0.136.1
Hardware: ASUS k40in
Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

In normaly the keyboard combination Fn+F2 (control wlan) does not work with wlan card and wlan led.
This is patch of state-funcs file and events add the normal work with wlan card on the ASUS laptop like k40in and other from k-series (tested with k50in).

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help to improve Ubuntu.

Please submit patches in diff -u (unidiff) format.

This patch needs improvement on a couple of points. First, you don't want to trigger both /etc/acpi/events/asus-wireless-on and /etc/acpi/events/asus-wireless-off on the same event; this should be abstracted better, treating 0000005d as a "toggle" event. Second, /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs already supports the standard rfkill abstractions in the kernel, and if this doesn't work with the asus_laptop driver, that's a bug in that driver - not in acpi-support. Opening a task on this bug for the kernel side.

[Leonid Nasedkin (leonidnasedkin)]

Patch in diff -u format.?field.comment=Patch in diff -u format.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 626797

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Fabrício Pereira (fabriciorsf)]

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Not an acpi-support bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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