PackardBell Wifi-Hotkey

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu May 4 16:11:48 UTC 2006


Sven Giersig wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I'm a (not-so-proud) user of a Packard Bell R1100 Laptop, which ships
> with an ath-card. The driver attaches perfectly, but I have to enable
> the antenna with a hotkey. Is there any chance to enable it on *BSD? I
> tried some sysctl fiddeling and so on, but the antenna is still dead.
> 
> As a workaround I use the asus wl-167g on ural which is mostly stable
> (except for bridging / tap0).
> 
> Beside that, the PB also has problems with resuming from suspend in
> acpi-mode, but that's another thing.
> 
> Maybe there are some Packard-Hell users on the list with similar
> experience and/or some hints for the hotkeys and acpi?

I tried adding the code to the driver but backed it out 'cuz it 
supposedly broke some stuff.  I'll look at it again.

	Sam


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