[Bug 319825] Re: acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled) rfkill device

[Robert Hooker]

There are clones of the AOA150 also affected by this bug. I have
confirmed it kills wifi access using both packard bell and gateway
AOA150 bioses. Gateway's AOA150 has subvendor ID 1025 subsystem ID 015B
and Vendor string "Gateway", and Packard Bell's SVID/SSID is 1631/0193
with vendor string "Packard Bell". The bioses for all these systems are
interchangable and a bunch of people with earlier model Acer AOA150's
are using the other ones in order to have more backlight brightness
levels. It's not that big of a deal because the module does not
automatically load on these bioses but it is still affected by the bug
if manually loaded for some reason. The gateway clone is sold in the US
under the LT model series name. As a side note, this causes all kinds of
havoc to hal keymaps :D


Example from the Gateway bios dmidecode-
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Gateway
	Version: v0.3103
	Release Date: 12/09/2008
	ROM Size: 1024 kB
	Characteristics:
		PCI is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		BIOS ROM is socketed
		EDD is supported
		Japanese floppy for NEC 9800 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
		Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
		5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Gateway
	Product Name: AOA150
	Version: LU.S050B.111
	Serial Number: xxxxxxx
	UUID: xxxxxxx
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Napa_Fab5
	Family: Intel_Mobile

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acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled) rfkill device
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319825
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