No wireless on 64bit Acer laptops

[darkshadow]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.17

Unable to enable wireless without the acer_acpi module which is not included in Ubuntu

http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html

[Frederic Renet (frederic)]

Once the module running you must do :

echo "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless

This is well known and was also in dapper.

[darkshadow (shadowofdarkness)]

I know that. I was told in the forums to open a bug in launchpad in
order to hopefully get the module added by default so that later
releases would "just work"

On 9/30/06, Frederic Renet <email address hidden> wrote:
> Once the module running you must do :
>
> echo "enabled : 1" > /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
>
> This is well known and was also in dapper.
>
> --
> No wireless on 64bit Acer laptops
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/60972
>

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Have you tested feisty yet to see if this is still the case for the linux-source-2.6.20 package?

[darkshadow (shadowofdarkness)]

Yes I installed feisty herd 4 on the weekend and I still had to install this module.

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

Just a few precisations:

1) this bug applies to Feisty CD 5 too
2) this bug applies to some non-Acer laptops too (I need acer_acpi to get wireless working on my Fujitsu Siemens A1650G)
3) upgrading from Edgy to Feisty, I had trouble recompiling the module, because the "make" command didn't work no more, so I had to give the following commands:

make clean
make acer_acpi.ko
cp -v acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-12-generic/extra/
mkdir cd /lib/modules/2.6.20-12-generic/extra
cp -v acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-12-generic/extra/
depmod -a
modprobe acer_acpi

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

(sorry: the third command shouldn't appear at all, the fourth command is wrong: it should be "mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.20-12-generic/extra", not "mkdir cd /lib/modules/2.6.20-12-generic/extra")

[Carlos Diener / emonkey (emonkey)]

The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the actively developed release. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

This is indeed still a bug. There are some temptatives of doing good acer_acpi packages that could try to get imported in Debian and so in Hardy+1; for Hardy, it's too late.

[Pietro Battiston (toobaz)]

The bug was solved in the best of ways: not by adding a package, but by adding acer_acpi (now named acer-wmi) to upstream kernel (2.6.25) and backporting it to Hardy's 2.6.24. Yes, in Hardy it should just work.

Not in 2.6.17, oviously, but bug itself is fixed.