Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 encountered the term 'overlay' before. Never realized it's like a mini-portage until now. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 Sunrise overlay. Doesn't seem to be any 'sys-power/acpi-support' in portage. There's acpi, which I installed, but it doesn't help. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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. as part of the sys-power/acpi-support package in the Sunrise overlay. Doesn't seem to be any 'sys-power/acpi-support' in portage. There's acpi, which I installed, but it doesn't help. you even quoted the part where it clearly says the package is NOT in portage. 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 I think that script is outdated, too.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 don't appear in the 2.6.29-r5 sources. Leastwise, I can't find them.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 second time you've quoted that message without properly reading it. No help. I think that script is outdated, too. It mentions modules which don't appear in the 2.6.29-r5 sources. Leastwise, I can't find them. That page refers to the ASUS_ACPI module package, which is no longer needed as the modules are now part of the kernel. So yes, the names may have changed and you should update the wiki once you have discovered the modules to use now. -- Neil Bothwick Atheism is a non-prophet organization. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 method I refer to? I can't remember the file or the complete command, just that it involves echo'ing a 1 or 0 somewhere. There's a script to do this on the Wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC_701#Wireless -- Neil Bothwick RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] [OT] Toggling wireless on eee without fn+f2
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 complete command, just that it involves echo'ing a 1 or 0 somewhere. This was part of a discussion lamenting the difficulty of getting fn + f2 to work on something other than the stock Xandros OS.C I tried 'Code Listing 6.2: Automated WLAN Power Management' in the gentoo doc, 'Power Management Guide' which says to put 'iwconfig_wlan=power on' in /etc/conf.d/net without success Maxim
