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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 Linux |
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> friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). |
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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 any |
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> way to change this? |
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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 freedos). |
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> I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by |
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> yet another Google search result. |
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What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any |
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hotkey setting. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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