Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
you even quoted the part where it clearly says the package is NOT in portage. ouch. It's in an overlay, Sunrise to be exact, and you need layman for that. There is an excellent layman guide on the gentoo docs site. didn't -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com finish my post -- I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
There's a script to do this on the Wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701#Wireless Make sure that you have compiled PCI Express Hotplug as module in kernel. check Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg. as part of the sys-power/acpi-support package in the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 03 July 2009 22:21:15 Maxim Wexler wrote: There's a script to do this on the Wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701#Wireless Make sure that you have compiled PCI Express Hotplug as module in kernel. check Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg. as part of the sys-power/acpi-support package in the Sunrise overlay. OK, there's a fakekey(fakephp.ko) module in bus options, which I configured and installed. No help. I think that script is outdated, too. It mentions modules which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:51:35 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Also this script uses acpi_fakekey which you can find eg. as part of the sys-power/acpi-support package in the Sunrise overlay. OK, there's a fakekey(fakephp.ko) module in bus options, which I configured and installed. That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:40:27 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: I recall a reference, which I can't find anymore, to a method of toggling the wireless on/off for a EEE-PC that involved first, disabling wireless in the BIOS, and then echo'ing a 1 or a 0 to some file or other. Does anybody know the

[gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2

2009-07-01 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I recall a reference, which I can't find anymore, to a method of toggling the wireless on/off for a EEE-PC that involved first, disabling wireless in the BIOS, and then echo'ing a 1 or a 0 to some file or other. Does anybody know the method I refer to? I can't remember the file or the