Re: Wifi switch not working, linux on IdeaPad S205

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於 五,2011-06-24 於 23:03 +0200,Florian Heyer 提到:
> Hello Joey,
> 
> > For a normal user, he will not un-probe acer-wmi driver after system.
> > Could you please help to confirm? I mean please switch your hardware
> > wifi switch a couple of cycles with acer-wmi loaded.
> >
> > Just want to 100% make sure acer-wmi will not crash after switch
> > wireless state by hardware a lot of times.
> 
> Ok, with only acer-wmi loaded (wifi is connected) i toggled the wifi 
> switch a couple of times. Trying as fast as possible...no problem, 
> system didn't crash. After finally switching to "on" wifi connected again.
> 
> > It's the same, if you wan to use ideapad-laptop at the same time. Please
> > load ideapad-laptop and acer-wmi then switch wireless button many times,
> > make sure there have not thing crash.
> >
> 
> With acer-wmi AND idepad-laptop loaded i tried the same as above. Again, 
> no crash. After switching finally to "on" wifi connected again.
> 

Thank's for your confirm and good news!

> I noticed a message from acer-wmi (has nothing to do with the tests 
> above): acer-wmi prints a message to kernel message log about every second:
> 
> [28907.045046] acer_wmi: acer_rfkill_update state: 1
> 
> Is this debugging output? For the final version it should be disabled.
> 

Yes, this is a debug message to make sure the EC register value mapping
to rfkill hardware switch status:
	0 means wireless disabled (hard-blocked)
	1 means wireless enabled (unblocked)

I will remove this message when send out support patch to acer-wmi.


Thank's a lot!
Joey Lee

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