Package: acpi-support Version: 0.132-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch *** Please type your report below this line ***
Hi, I investigated a bit deeper in this bug and I found out that /etc/acpi/events/asus-wireless-wlan interferes with the Acer wireless button. In fact, the event is called when button/wlan WLAN 00000080 is pressed - that is the wireless button on my Acer Laptop - and the subsequent action /etc/acpi/asus-wireless.sh makes the wireless card switch only from HW based to SW based rf_kill. To test it, I've stopped acpid and tested the wireless button. It actually worked and so I realized that the problem relied in the asus-wireless.sh script. I provide a small non invasive patch in order to check if the laptop is actually an Asus or not, if not the script is exited. dmidecode is used, but if not installed nothing happens and the script is executed anyway. Let me know what you think about it. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (200, 'unstable'), (99, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpi-support depends on: ii acpi-support-base 0.132-1 scripts for handling base ACPI e ii acpid 1:2.0.1-2 Advanced Configuration and Power I ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scr ii pm-utils 1.2.6.1-3 utilities and scripts for power ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+1+b1 X server utilities Versions of packages acpi-support recommends: ii dbus 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging sy ii hal 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii radeontool 1.5-5 utility to control ATI Radeon ba ii toshset 1.75-2 Access much of the Toshiba laptop ii vbetool 1.1-2 run real-mode video BIOS code to ii xscreensaver 5.10-7 Automatic screensaver for X Versions of packages acpi-support suggests: ii dmidecode 2.9-1.2 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii nvclock 0.8b4-1 Allows you to overclock your pn rfkill <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Stefano Fortune of the day: "You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture."
--- asus-wireless.sh.orig 2010-02-15 23:29:36.000000000 -0500 +++ asus-wireless.sh 2010-02-15 23:39:55.000000000 -0500 @@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ . /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs +if [ -x /usr/sbin/dmidecode ]; then + VENDOR=`dmidecode -s system-manufacturer` + test $VENDOR = "Asus" || exit 0 +fi + if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then toggleAllWirelessStates; elif ( isAnyWirelessPoweredOn ) ; then
