Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I got a new Lenovo G50. I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any way to change this? Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by yet another Google search result. What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any problems. I don't really understand the exact purpose of that module. Touchpad, brightness control, sound control, camera, radio everything works out of the box without the module. Except that I'm not able to toggle airplane mode using the hotkey, but that's not a big issue.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop
On 31 July 2014 19:40:07 CEST, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I got a new Lenovo G50. I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any way to change this? Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by yet another Google search result. What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any problems. I don't really understand the exact purpose of that module. Touchpad, brightness control, sound control, camera, radio everything works out of the box without the module. Except that I'm not able to toggle airplane mode using the hotkey, but that's not a big issue. I am not familiar with that module. But in a long distant past I wrote a module to handle the special keys on an ASUS laptop which were exposed via ACPI. I always assume these modules add support for special keys and settings not handled by any other driver. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 20:22 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 31 July 2014 19:40:07 CEST, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I got a new Lenovo G50. I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any way to change this? Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by yet another Google search result. What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any problems. I don't really understand the exact purpose of that module. Touchpad, brightness control, sound control, camera, radio everything works out of the box without the module. Except that I'm not able to toggle airplane mode using the hotkey, but that's not a big issue. I am not familiar with that module. But in a long distant past I wrote a module to handle the special keys on an ASUS laptop which were exposed via ACPI. I always assume these modules add support for special keys and settings not handled by any other driver. -- Joost Yes, a quick scan through the code told me that. But I still don't understand why radio gets hard blocked when the module is enabled and works perfectly when the module is not loaded. I found this bug today - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56381 So I guess, it's just a matter of time. Wish I knew kernel coding to supply a patch.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I got a new Lenovo G50. I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any way to change this? Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by yet another Google search result. What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop
On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I got a new Lenovo G50. I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any way to change this? Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by yet another Google search result. What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any problems.
