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On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> > So I got a new Lenovo G50. |
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> > I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite |
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Linux |
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> > friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). |
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> > |
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> > There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which |
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> > apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things |
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> > doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there |
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any |
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> > way to change this? |
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> > |
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> > Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via |
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> > windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with |
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freedos). |
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> > |
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> > I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested |
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by |
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> > yet another Google search result. |
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> |
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> What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override |
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any |
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> hotkey setting. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no |
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hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any |
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problems. |
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