[Debian-eeepc-devel] Problem with wireless hotkey

[Conny]

Gilles Mocellin skrev:
> Hello EeePC users,
> 
> I've never seen my wireless key working.
> So, I investigate.
> 
> Here's what I found:
> 
> 1) There's only one key
>    So, one code to handle by /etc/acpi/actions/hotkey.sh.
>    /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh must be a toggle script.
>    
> 2) The wifi hardware and led are enabled by hardware (like the brightness)
>    With the "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/asus/wlan", I saw my wifi led disabled one or 
> two seconds after having been light up.
>    I simply remove them.
> 
> In case there's an interaction,
> I use a 701 4G Linux model
> My BIOS is 1101
> The interesting packages:
> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
> eeepc-acpi-modules-2.6.25-2-686
> eeepc-acpi-scripts_1.0.4
> acpi-support-base_0.109-5
> 
> I will have to test with the 2.6.26 kernel…
> 
> Finaly, there's my scripts:
> gilles at eeepc:/etc/acpi/actions$ cat wireless-toggle.sh
> ===========================================================================
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> wlan_control=/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/wlan
> [ -e $wlan_control ] || wlan_control=/proc/acpi/asus/wlan # pre-2.6.26
> 
> if [ $(cat $wlan_control) = 1 ]; then
>     modprobe -r pciehp
>     modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1
>     modprobe ath_pci
>     # adding a sleep here, due to some bug the driver loading is not atomic 
> here
>     # and could cause ifconfig to fail
>     sleep 1
>     ifconfig ath0 up
> else
>     ifdown --force ath0
>     modprobe -r ath_pci
> fi
> ===========================================================================
> 
> gilles at eeepc:/etc/acpi/actions$ diff hotkey.sh.ori hotkey.sh
> ===========================================================================
> 2d1
> < echo "$@" >> /tmp/hotkeys.log
> 63,66c62,65
> <     00000010)
> <       /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh on
> <       show_wireless
> <       ;;
> ---
>> #    00000010)
>> #     /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh on
>> #     show_wireless
>> #     ;;
> 68c67
> <       /etc/acpi/actions/wireless.sh off
> ---
>>       /etc/acpi/actions/wireless-toggle.sh

You may take a look here, you may need the eee-kernel also I think, but 
give it a try.

http://www.array.org/ubuntu/post-install.html#Hotkey_Support