Fedora 8 on Asus S5A; asus_laptop parameters and wireless enable/disable function key

[Trond Danielsen]

Hi,

My laptop has a wireless enable/disable function key, which previously
only disabled the wireless network and it could only be enabled by
rebooting into Windows. In Fedora 8 I can finally both enable and
disable the network by adding the parameter wapf=4 to modprobe
(modprobe asus_laptop wapf=4). This means that I can finally wipe out
my Windows partition. Horray! :)

My question is very simple: Which component should I file the bug against?

Regard,
-- 
Trond Danielsen

[drago01]

Trond Danielsen wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  My laptop has a wireless enable/disable function key, which previously
>  only disabled the wireless network and it could only be enabled by
>  rebooting into Windows. In Fedora 8 I can finally both enable and
>  disable the network by adding the parameter wapf=4 to modprobe
>  (modprobe asus_laptop wapf=4). This means that I can finally wipe out
>  my Windows partition. Horray! :)
>
>  My question is very simple: Which component should I file the bug against?
>
>     
kernel

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2007/11/4, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  Hi,
>
>  My laptop has a wireless enable/disable function key, which previously
>  only disabled the wireless network and it could only be enabled by
>  rebooting into Windows. In Fedora 8 I can finally both enable and
>  disable the network by adding the parameter wapf=4 to modprobe
>  (modprobe asus_laptop wapf=4). This means that I can finally wipe out
>  my Windows partition. Horray! :)
>
>  My question is very simple: Which component should I file the bug against? 
Did you sent your /proc/acpi/dsdt file to the asus4acpi project at sourceforge ?

Nicolas (kwizart )

>  Regard,
>  --
>  Trond Danielsen
>
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[Trond Danielsen]

2007/11/4, KH KH <kwizart(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  2007/11/4, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > My laptop has a wireless enable/disable function key, which previously
>  > only disabled the wireless network and it could only be enabled by
>  > rebooting into Windows. In Fedora 8 I can finally both enable and
>  > disable the network by adding the parameter wapf=4 to modprobe
>  > (modprobe asus_laptop wapf=4). This means that I can finally wipe out
>  > my Windows partition. Horray! :)
>  >
>  > My question is very simple: Which component should I file the bug against?
>
>  Did you sent your /proc/acpi/dsdt file to the asus4acpi project at sourceforge ? 
The laptop is already supported by the asus_laptop driver:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1455776&...

Dmesg snippet below:

asus-laptop: Asus Laptop Support version 0.42
asus-laptop:   S5A model detected
Registered led device: asus:mail


-- 
Trond Danielsen

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 12:24 +0100, Trond Danielsen wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  My laptop has a wireless enable/disable function key, which previously
>  only disabled the wireless network and it could only be enabled by
>  rebooting into Windows. In Fedora 8 I can finally both enable and
>  disable the network by adding the parameter wapf=4 to modprobe
>  (modprobe asus_laptop wapf=4). This means that I can finally wipe out
>  my Windows partition. Horray! :)
>  
>  My question is very simple: Which component should I file the bug against? 
Ideally asus_laptop would handle the wapf value _itself_.  You shouldn't
have to do anything.  There's really no excuse in 2007 to have to
specify this sort of thing manually.  The bug should likely be filed
against asus_laptop upstream, or if it's in the kernel, kernel bugzilla.
Furthermore, the asus_laptop module should support the rfkill framework
that's already in the kernel in 2.6.23.  Not a rant at you or anything,
just at asus_laptop not Just Working.

Dan

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>  Furthermore, the asus_laptop module should support the rfkill
>  framework that's already in the kernel in 2.6.23. 
Totally agree, this is where this functionality belongs.

Richard.

[Trond Danielsen]

2007/11/6, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>  > Furthermore, the asus_laptop module should support the rfkill
>  > framework that's already in the kernel in 2.6.23.
>
>  Totally agree, this is where this functionality belongs.
>
>  Richard. 
I'll take a closer look at the asus_laptop module and the rfkill
framework and either come up with a patch or send a bugreport to the
upstream project.

Thanks for the feedback.

-- 
Trond Danielsen