From: ja@marvec.org
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tino Schmidt" <mailtinoshomepage@gmx.net>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, "Miloslav Trmac" <mitr@volny.cz>,
"Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
"Jonathan Woithe" <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>,
"Éric Piel" <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Subject: Re: Wishlist: Add support for software-rf-switch in Fujitsu-Siemens notebook
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:25:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ccea6c74fe05a97c2fd92a16b92def5@marvec.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111002221253.GA18253@elie>
Hello,
I never tried integrating the code into any "standard way". I just
needed a quick fix and I do not have much experience with Kernel
programming.
I agree that running the code without checking the presence of this HW
can have bad side effects (however, I did not experienced any on several
different laptops).
I do not have the hardware easily accessible now to provide requested
information. I would really appreciate if anybody could take the code
and put it into some standard Kernel module.
Please note, that it is not possible to switch the wifi on by emulating
some software keys. It really needs to write to some HW ports. I
obtained these numbers by reverse engineering the original
Fujitsu-Siemens Windows driver.
Cheers,
Martin
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 17:12:54 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tino Schmidt wrote[1]:
>
>> My notebook is an Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1655G, which has a
>> software-based RF-Switch. My wireless network card (
>> Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN
>> Controller (rev 02), ID 14e4:4318) would be unusable if there wasn't
>> a
>> project like http://sourceforge.net/projects/fsaa1655g/ which brings
>> support at least for kernel 2.6.26. But there isn't any support
>> beyond
>> kernel 2.6.26.
>
> I notice that the wistron_btns driver has support for some other
> Amilo
> laptops. The source says:
>
> /*
> * If your machine is not here (which is currently rather likely),
> please send
> * a list of buttons and their key codes (reported when loading this
> module
> * with force=1) and the output of dmidecode to $MODULE_AUTHOR.
> */
>
> Tino (or anyone with this hardware), could you send dmesg output from
>
> modprobe wistron_btns force=1
>
> and dmidecode (or "grep . /sys/class/dmi/id/*_{vendor,name,version}"
> as Ben suggested)?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/631664
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20110625211738.3615.21718.reportbug@lisa>
[not found] ` <1317441406.4068.43.camel@deadeye>
2011-10-02 22:12 ` Wishlist: Add support for software-rf-switch in Fujitsu-Siemens notebook Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-04 8:25 ` ja [this message]
2011-10-16 20:25 ` Tino Schmidt
2011-10-17 4:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-31 17:30 ` Tino Schmidt
2011-11-01 4:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-06 21:04 ` Tino Schmidt
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