New "Apple Wireless Keyboard" (2009) not supported
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Bug Description
Apple sells a new make of the "Apple Wireless Keyboard" (starting in November 2009). This model can be recognized that it has only two batteries. The device IDs changed, so the Apple HID driver does not recognize it. I've added the new ID to a local copy of the current kernel in karmic and compiled it. Additionally, I added the module to /etc/modules so that it is loaded at boot time. Loading this module later did not work for me.
The device ID for the European model (ISO) is: 0x023a. The ANSI device ID should be 0x0239 (see https:/
I'll post a diff later (have to clean up my changes first), but basically I did what Andrei Andreyanau described in https:/
I checked the source of the latest kernel version on kernel.org and they all do not have this additional IDs in the source files, so please also push the changes upstream.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: kernel-series-unknown |
tags: | removed: kernel-series-unknown |
Hi, Christian! d/hid_apple. conf with the following line:
Thanks for your attention and for your message about this problem. Honestly I must say that yesterday I have rebuilt the core and tried to fix this thing again without success. I added a line into /etc/modules to load hid_apple module before system starts and modified /etc/modprobe.
options hid_apple fnmode=2
with giving configuration file following rights:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 428 2009-12-09 22:13 hid_apple.conf
After all I rebooted the system and tried to re-configure keyboard shortcuts, but nothing changed at all (hid_apple module is loaded and stays in the memory according to lsmod). Did you make anything else in addition to those modifications I described in https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/+ bug/227501/ comments/ 22?