netbook jonesing

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Wed Jan 14 19:37:40 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:01:57 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:46:53 Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:58 -0700
> >
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > upon Anne's issues about wireless LED's.
> >
> > The led thing is really a driver issue.  This web page:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One
> >
> > talks about getting the led to work with Fedora, but I get the impression
> > that it works only with the madwifi driver (which is no longer required
> > for F10).
> >
> > I haven't tried any of the other tricks listed on that page yet.
>
> Apparently the LED fix worked with 2.6.26 kernels and the madwifi driver. 
> It does not work with 2.6.27 kernels and the included ath5k driver.  If any
> ubuntu user can tell me whether it works with a 2.6.28 kernel, I'd be
> interested, although I understand that ubuntu has had issues with the ath5k
> driver
>
Further clarification said that it was not kernel-linked at all.  The ability 
simply was in the madwifi driver and is not in the kernel driver.

Anne
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