I decided to upload the files to the web instead of attaching them to the email since they are quite large. ti, 2010-12-28 kello 08:36 -0700, Joey Lee kirjoitti: > It's not make sense acer-wmi probe on Ideapad S12 netbook, could you > please help to attached the following information? > > - modinfo acer-wmi > acer-wmi.log http://vpv.kapsi.fi/ideapad-s12/modinfo-acer-wmi.txt > - dmesg > dmesg.log http://vpv.kapsi.fi/ideapad-s12/dmesg-acer-wmi.txt > - dmidecode > dmidecode.log http://vpv.kapsi.fi/ideapad-s12/dmidecode-acer-wmi.txt > - acpidump > acpidump.dat http://vpv.kapsi.fi/ideapad-s12/acpidump.dat The dmesg may not reveal much, but if I blacklist acer-wmi for booting and then load it later manually, this is what appears in /var/log/messages: kernel: [ 4795.867540] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras NetworkManager[914]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill7 (at /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/rfkill7) (driver acer-wmi) NetworkManager[914]: <info> WiFi now disabled by radio killswitch Then, if I unload acer-wmi: kernel: [ 4852.875590] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop WMI Extras unloaded NetworkManager[914]: <info> radio killswitch /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/rfkill7 disappeared NetworkManager[914]: <info> WiFi now enabled by radio killswitch NetworkManager[914]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device. kernel: [ 4852.905625] wmi: Mapper unloaded -- Ville-Pekka Vainio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html