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

[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