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On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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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 |
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> quite 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 |
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> things |
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> > > doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is |
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> there 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 |
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> 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 |
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> suggested 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 |
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> override 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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> |
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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 |
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> any problems. |
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> |
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I don't really understand the exact purpose of that module. Touchpad, |
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brightness control, sound control, camera, radio everything works out of |
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the box without the module. Except that I'm not able to toggle airplane |
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mode using the hotkey, but that's not a big issue. |
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