Wireless Switch not working

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Hello all,

I have a Fujitsu-Amilo series Laptop that I am trying to enable the wireless on. The Wireless button needs acerhk compiled from source, but I have been unsuccessful in getting it to compile. This is the only way that I have gotten wireless to previously work on this laptop with any Linux distro. This laptop absolutely requires acerhk or else I will get the following in dmesg:

9.329495] ipw2100: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection     
9.329520] ipw2100 0000:02:06.0: firmware: requesting ipw2100-1.3.fw        
9.596922] eth0: Radio is disabled by RF switch.

The only way to prevent this is to install the acerhk module driver from Acer Hotkey driver for Linux, but I have tried to compile it and it seemingly won’t work. Anyone got any ideas? I am running 11.2.

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Hi
11.2 is out of support, so rebuild (AS YOUR USER) this rpm on your
system, open a terminal;


wget http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/driver:/wireless/SLE_11/src/acerhk-0.5.35-3.1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild acerhk-0.5.35-3.1.src.rpm

The resulting rpms for your arch will be down in /usr/src/packages and
you will need to be root user to install the KMP for your kernel.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 5 days 13:58, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.23, 0.16
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

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I see the package there in the directory, where can I find the kernel package for my kernel?

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Ok, got the wireless working. Now I just need to get it to work on startup.

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Hi
In the discontinued area;
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.2/repo/
http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/11.2/rpm/

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 5 days 14:52, 4 users, load average: 1.05, 0.45, 0.26
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

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In that repo, I don’t find the acerhk kmp default kernel anywhere. Where should I be looking exactly?

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Hi
You need to rebuild the rpm on your machine and the built rpms will be
dow in the /usr/src/packages/RPMS directory for your arch, if it’s
32bit they will be in the i586 one.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 5 days 16:39, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.09, 0.14
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13

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It would probably make more sense to upgrade to 11.3, where acerhk is openly supported in the repos. I have a 11.3 disk and I think I would be better off with a more supported version of suse instead of using evergreen repos, which are not thoroughly completed for 11.2 just yet. I’ll boot up a Live CD and get 11.3 installed. Then work on the acerhk packages, which are available for 11.3. Will post back with results when complete, or if I run into issues.

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acerhk is supported in 11.3 and 11.4, but currently not in 12.1. So I am hoping that the build support is so kind creating an rpm for 12.1 again. In the moment the status of acerhk is disabled. If sombody from the build team is reading this: please do not let us (owner of acer extensa laptops) starve in the desert.

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On 11/23/2011 07:06 AM, luenibaer wrote:
>
> acerhk is supported in 11.3 and 11.4, but currently not in 12.1. So I am
> hoping that the build support is so kind creating an rpm for 12.1 again.
> In the moment the status of acerhk is disabled. If sombody from the
> build team is reading this: please do not let us (owner of acer extensa
> laptops) starve in the desert.

I think that functionality moved to acer-wmi. Is that module loaded?

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Unfortunately acer-wmi is not working on my acer extensa 2900.
Acer-wmi is not provided as rpm. So I successfully compiled it but it does not switch my wireless.
I think I would really need the acerhk.