I had a mail exchange with upstream developer Carlos Corbacho, and now everything is much more clear. In particular:
> 2) acer-wmi doesn't work for me since its transition to rfkill support. > > echo 1 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill/rfkill1/state > > returns "device or resource busy". My kernel is an Ubuntu 2.6.28-7. > > Try /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/state > (and it works indeed) > 4) "For non-Acer laptops, until WMI based autoloading support is added, > > you will need to manually load acer-wmi." - I would be very grateful if > > you could precise if you mean a "per case" support or some more general > > "wmi based autoloading" feature that is missing in the kernel. > > The latter. > (oops) So, sorry for wasting your time, Leann; kernel is just not ready for that. I see two options: 1) just wait for a kernel improvement to fix this bug 2) use jockey. Don't know if it makes sense, I'll just ask to jockey-hackers -- acer_wmi is not used by default (on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248635 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
