Hi,

I tried your kernel on a Lenovo Ideapad S12 with Ubuntu 11.10. "cat
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist* | grep acer" gives "# blacklist acer-wmi".
This means acer-wmi is *not* blacklisted on my system.


"uname -rv" --> "2.6.38-12-generic-pae #51lp836865 SMP [...]"
acer-wmi not loaded
ideapad_laptop is loaded
b43 not loaded
Wlan not working, but if I load b43 Network-manager tells me firmware is 
missing (normal)

"uname -rv" --> "2.6.38-02063808-generic #201106040910 SMP [...]" (Ubuntu 
mainline kernel 2.6.38.8)
same situation as before

"uname -rv" --> "3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP [...]" (Ubuntu oneiric kernel)
acer-wmi not loaded
ideapad_laptop is loaded
b43 not loaded
wl is loaded, driver for wlan card --> works out-of-the-box in a LiveUSB system 
for example, no need to download firmware as for b43...


I don't know what you wanted to see. It is funny for me to see, that the 
acer-wmi module is not loaded with none of the kernel images, even if the 
module is not blacklisted. With Ubuntu Natty it was a must for me to put this 
module on the blacklist in order to have any wifi connection. If I remember 
correctly, after the upgrade to Ubuntu oneiric, my system used the b43 module 
and I had to blacklist the acer-wmi module again. However, on the same laptop, 
the Oneiric LiveUSB system always used the "wl" module and gave me wlan 
out-of-the-box. Then I purged the b43 stuff from my installed system and 
installed with the additional drivers tool a new driver (wl module), which 
gives me now a much more reliable wlan connection...

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