From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756615AbYICR7t (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:59:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752795AbYICR7j (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:59:39 -0400 Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]:20609 "EHLO mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752517AbYICR7i (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:59:38 -0400 X-Trace: 131656168/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-NILDRAM-ACCEPTED/f2s-nildram-customers/195.149.44.6 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 195.149.44.6 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: alistair@devzero.co.uk X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtoEALxtvkjDlSwG/2dsb2JhbACBZbVfgWc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,320,1217804400"; d="scan'208";a="131656168" X-IP-Direction: IN From: Alistair John Strachan To: Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: How to add the Asus R1F to asus-laptop.c? Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:59:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (Linux/2.6.27-rc5-damocles; KDE/4.1.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Corentin CHARY References: <20080903170649.GF12476@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20080903170649.GF12476@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809031859.28203.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.