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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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Joost |
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