Wireless NIC on / off key does not work on ASUS A6Km

Can you follow the guidelines at:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch

and try to discover whether it generates an ACPI event or a keypress (or something else). Currently we only have a match for:

  /etc/acpi/events/asus-wireless: hotkey ATKD 0000005d

can you do a:

  sudo tail -0f /var/log/acpid

when you press the button and paste the output.

Thanks Paul,

I followed HotkeyResearch guidelines, but unfortunately didn't get any usefull information. Acpid doesn't log any events on the Fn+F2 keypress and showkey just captured the 0x9c from Enter release.

This notebook also has a wlan indication LED, but that doesn't seem to work either. Actually /proc/acpi/asus/wled is set at '1', but the led never lights up. Also 'acpitool -n 1' or echoing directly to /proc/acpi/asus/wled don't help.

I'm going to try some BIOS updates and also check on how things work on Windows side. Maybe the NIC key / LED communicate through the wlan card (Intel 2200BG) driver or something...

Seems like the wireless NIC hotkey and LED are controlled on Windows by a small program called Wireless Console 2 (wcourier.exe). Without it the NIC hotkey / LED don't work.

No indication on how the communication is done though... could be anything I guess. :/

While searching through /proc/acpi, I noticed that /proc/acpi/asus/info displays this information:

Asus Laptop ACPI Extras Driver 0.29
Model reference : M2E
SFUN value : 0x08f7
DSDT length : 29207
DSDT checksum : 227
DSDT revision : 1
OEM id : 1ABZX
OEM table id : 1ABZX001
OEM revision : 0x1
ASL comp vendor id : INTL
ASL comp revision : 0x2002026

So the notebook is falsely recognized as M2E and not A6Km... could this be the reason the NIC key / LED doesn't work?

I have the same trouble as Antti. The kernels BCM 43xx driver correctly identifies the cars, but the fn+f2 doesn't power up/down the radio, so the card can't find any AP's etc. Running Dapper i386 6.06 LTS. The file(?) /proc/acpi/asus/info seems empty though... (quite newbie as you probably recon).

Basically ACPI doesn't trap the keycombo (tried acpi_listen amongst others). How to programatically power up the radio I have no idea how to do.

The helper script gives the following error for me:
/usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs: line 44: echo: write error: Invalid argument
I'm using the ndiswrapper driver, cause the native driver does not support 54M at all, and is terribly slow anyway. It does not have a device/rf_kill in /sys, which is used by the new feisty acpi script. This used to work in an older version of ubuntu, not sure when it stopped working, as i dont use the key very frequently.

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