From: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
To: Vaclav Mocek <vmocek@gmail.com>
Cc: jlee@novell.com, mjg@redhat.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c: Support for another Lenovo Ideapad S205
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:53:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F62B925.9020508@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F62B793.4080405@canonical.com>
On 03/16/2012 11:46 AM, Ike Panhc wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 07:09 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 06:16 AM, Ike Panhc wrote:
>>> Hi Vaclav,
>>>
>>> Could you try this just-merged patch and see if it fix your problem?
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=461e74377cfcfc2c0d6bbdfa8fc5fbc21b052c2a
>> Hi Ike,
>>
>> tested, it doesn't work, basically it behaves as without your patch; my simple patch still works. If I understand correctly, you want to offload handling of rfkill to ideapad-laptop module. I will look into it during the weekend, any hint, what should I focus on? I am fairly new to this subsystem, it is quite complex and most of time I am spending studying how things work, which is nice, but it doesn't lead to immediate results.
>>
>> BR
>>
>> Vaclav M.
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>
> What kernel version you use? Checked wiki and it might be 3.1 or 3.2.6. For 3.1 based kernel, you shall also backport this commit
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=1709adab0773616da7a8190f2762e599afb0a295
>
> If this patch works properly, you shall see no 'acer-wireless' in `rfkill list` and you can unblock other rfkill for wifi. Then you shall be able to use your wireless.
>
> If all rfkill is unblocked but you still can not use your wifi. Please post dmidecode here, I think, then, a possible approach is to consider to use DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION or add another DMI_PRODUCT_NAME in quirk.
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If you can put the dmidecode and acpidump somewhere I can reach, I can help with analysis the situation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-14 3:01 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c: Support for another Lenovo Ideapad S205 Vaclav Mocek
2012-03-14 6:16 ` Ike Panhc
2012-03-14 21:49 ` Vaclav Mocek
2012-03-15 23:09 ` Vaclav Mocek
2012-03-16 3:46 ` Ike Panhc
2012-03-16 3:53 ` Ike Panhc [this message]
2012-03-16 4:34 ` joeyli
2012-03-20 0:45 ` Vaclav Mocek
2012-03-20 2:05 ` joeyli
2012-03-20 3:03 ` Ike Panhc
2012-03-20 3:22 ` joeyli
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