Re: How to add the Asus R1F to asus-laptop.c?

[Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

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?

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Cheers,
Alistair.