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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