fujitsu siemens wireless and hotkeys in ubuntu 9.10

[Nikola Trifunović]

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5 on Fujistu Siemens Li 1718 Laptop. When I enter $ iwconfig in terminal the wireless device is shown, but I can't turn it on over hotkey. I tried to turn the wireless over terminal with no success. I guess it has to be enabled over Hotkey. In Ubuntu 9.04 I used the hack that was submited and it worked quite well, but this hack doesn't work in Ubuntu 9.10. What information should I supply ?

[arky (arky)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in acpi-support.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

You mention in your bug report that in Ubuntu 9.04 you used a "hack that was submitted" but you give no other information about what this hack was. Can you expand on this comment?

How are you trying to turn on the wireless from the terminal? Anything that could be implemented in hotkey support would have an equivalent at the terminal.

[Nikola Trifunović (nikola-trifunovic)]

I have this tutorial how to make wireless work on fujitsu siemens li 1718. I can't find it righ now on the net, but I download it and have it offline :

DOCUMENT ON HOW TO ENABLE WIRELESS ON FUJITSU SIEMENS LI 1718
sadly to inform that my amilo laptop has gone to a new way and it is no longer in my possession. so i will not be able to continue maintaining the fsca16xx script. there are a few open issues (like hotkeys daemon going bezzerk) which i haven't fixed yet, so my advice is to stop using the script. instead i would advice that acerhk or acer_acpi modules will be loaded and used ( running acerhk example: sudo modprobe acerhk force_series=5020 autowlan=1).

on a different subject i have started a new project named himcellwriter which integrate the magnificent
cellwriter hand writing recognition application (applause to the author) as an hildon input method plugin. currently i am attempting to revive a pentium 3 500mhz desktop computer from scrap to be my main machine that will replace the amilo i used to have.

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notes:
1) if you have been using the script and something which happens to be 'hotkeys' is eating your cpu on ubuntu interpid, i suggest that you remove it by running:
sudo apt-get remove hotkeys
after removal, the "Activate/Deactivate" popup will stop appearing.

2) if you're new to ubuntu and have amilo li1718 or a1650g run the following 3 commands to add wireless led support without using the script- this will work until acerhk will be removed from ubuntu (probably 9.04 or 9.10):
$ echo options acerhk autowlan=1 force_series=5020 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/options
$ echo acerhk | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
$ sudo rmmod acerhk > /dev/null 2>&1 ; sudo modprobe acerhk autowlan=1 force_series=5020

[Nikola Trifunović (nikola-trifunovic)]

My friend was writing some commands in terminal, he know linux very well, but it doesn't work. But he said that he doesn't know how to make it work for my laptop (fujitsu siemens) :(

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Ok, the latest message points to this being a kernel module change; reassigning it to the linux package for further evaluation.

[moma (osmoma)]

Please take a look at this posting.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8129570&postcount=5
There is a temporary solution and link to a guide at the bottom.

The "acerhk-source" module should be fixed so it compiles in Karmic. And why not load it automatically when required.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Nikola Trifunović, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in a supported release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

[Nikola Trifunović (nikola-trifunovic)]

Christopher,
I can't answer your question because my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li1718 is not working anymore.
I now have MSI CR720 laptop and everything is working out of the box.

[John Tait (johntait1-waitrose)]

acerHK GUI available in PPA solves the problem of activating and de-activating the wireless