æ äï2011-05-31 æ 13:58 +0000ïjoeyli(Joey Lee) æåï > Hi Florian, > > æ äï2011-05-31 æ 15:02 +0200ïFlorian Heyer æåï > > On 05/31/2011 11:42 AM, Joey Lee wrote: > > > Just checked your DSDT, it declared the AMW0 methods, I agreed Ike's > > > suggestion that will be better you direct test acer-wmi on your machine. > > > > > > Please modprobe acer-wmi driver, then try to turn on/off bluetooth or > > > wireless device by rfkill. > > > > Hello Joey, > > > > here are some findings with acer_wmi. I execute the following steps from > > top to bottom, and only after the last step my wifi works. After each > > step you find the output of "rfkill list": > > > > after booting (no ideapad_laptop, no acer_wmi): > > 0: hci0: Bluetooth > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: yes > > > > after loading acer_wmi (wifi switch is on): > > 0: hci0: Bluetooth > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > 2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: yes > > Hard blocked: no > > > > after switching off: > > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > 2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: yes > > Hard blocked: no > > > > switching on again: > > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: yes > > 2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: yes > > Hard blocked: no > > 3: hci0: Bluetooth > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > > > after removing acer_wmi with modprobe -r: > > 1: phy0: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > 3: hci0: Bluetooth > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > > > Now wifi networking can be used! > > The optimal solution would be to have ideapad_laptop make all > > initialisations so wifi can be used after booting with no manual steps > > necessary. > > > > Regards > > Your wmi method type is AMW0 and I thought acer-wmi query wrong EC > register address so your acer-wireless was always soft-blocked. > > Please kindly help me to find out which register on your machine is > mapping to wireless status, please reference to Carlos's acer_ec.pl > tool: > > http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/EmbeddedController > > Simple use: > watch -n 1 perl acer_ec.pl regs > > Then press your wireless Fn key to monitor which register changed when > you press Fn key: > > e.g. the register at row B0 and column 0A is register 0xBA (0x is used > to indicate this is a hexadecimal number). > > There maybe have other EC register changing when you press key, please > do a couple of times and make sure you find out the right one. > > If we are lucky, we can find out one EC register mapping to your > wireless state. > > > Thank's > Joey Lee After traced S205 DSDT, I thought you will got a result is 0x71, please help to use acer_ec.pl to confirm this register changed. Please give me the value when wireless on/off. And, Please attached on dmidecode, just need: dmidecode > dmidecode.log I need add your dmi information to quirk table in acer-wmi. Thank's Joey Lee -- 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
