[Bug 248635] Re: acer_wmi is not used by default (on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G)

[Pietro Battiston]

I had a mail exchange with upstream developer Carlos Corbacho, and now
everything is much more clear. In particular:

> 2) acer-wmi doesn't work for me since its transition to rfkill support.
> > 	echo 1 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill/rfkill1/state
> > returns "device or resource busy". My kernel is an Ubuntu 2.6.28-7.
> 
> Try /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/state
> 

(and it works indeed)

> 4) "For non-Acer laptops, until WMI based autoloading support is added,
> > you will need to manually load acer-wmi." - I would be very grateful if
> > you could precise if you mean a "per case" support or some more general
> > "wmi based autoloading" feature that is missing in the kernel.
> 
> The latter.
> 

(oops)

So, sorry for wasting your time, Leann; kernel is just not ready for
that.

I see two options:
1) just wait for a kernel improvement to fix this bug
2) use jockey. Don't know if it makes sense, I'll just ask to jockey-hackers

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acer_wmi is not used by default (on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1650G)
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