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On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 20:22 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On 31 July 2014 19:40:07 CEST, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> >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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> > |
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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 |
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> >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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> I am not familiar with that module. |
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> But in a long distant past I wrote a module to handle the special keys on an ASUS laptop which were exposed via ACPI. |
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> I always assume these modules add support for special keys and settings not handled by any other driver. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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Yes, a quick scan through the code told me that. But I still don't |
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understand why radio gets hard blocked when the module is enabled and |
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works perfectly when the module is not loaded. I found this bug today - |
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56381 |
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So I guess, it's just a matter of time. Wish I knew kernel coding to |
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supply a patch. |