Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: How to add the Asus R1F to asus-laptop.c? | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:59:28 +0100 |
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Unless I'm mistaken, the current asus-laptop maintainer is Corentin Chary, who I've added to CC on your behalf.
On Wednesday 03 September 2008 18:06:49 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > My wife has an Asu R1F and I have been trying to help her get wireless > networking to work on it. > > The chipset is an intel 3945abg, so that part should be simple, and the > driver does in fact load and see things. unfortunately the radio is > killed and there is no hardware switch to toggling it. Instead you have > to use fn-F2 as on many other Asus laptops. > > I have managed to manually toggle it and see the Ap by poking at values > exported by asus-acpi in /proc and /sys, but that isn't very convinient. > > It would appear that the asus-laptop driver is supposed to manage > hotkeys on many asus laptops, but unfortunately the R1F isn't recognized > by the driver, which refuses to load. > > Looking at the sourceforge.net page mentioned in asus-laptop.c as the > development site, I see that there is in fact a patch submitted for the > R1F (which is almost the same as the M2E) to that site in may 2007, but > apparently no one monitors that site anymore, and it never got submitted > to the kernel. > > Who needs to be poked to have anything like that happen? Why is that > site listed in the driver anymore, if it isn't being used now? > > If I test out the patch and it works, should I submit it here to have it > included so that this can be solved once and for all?
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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