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teassumaire
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blotto
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Hi I have an acer 5020 with broadcom 4138 wifi and have it working using 64 bit drivers and acer_acpi.
acer_acpi needs to be modprobed twice ! it fails the first time and then works the second !!
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| Code: | #modprobe acer_acpi
#modprobe acer_acpi |
and dmesg shows -
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acer_acpi: Acer Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.2
acer_acpi: Unable to register driver, aborting.
acer_acpi: Acer Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.2 |
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teassumaire
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:18 am Post subject: |
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| when i try the above mentioned help, it errors. it tells me acer_acpi does not exit |
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teassumaire
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: |
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For the record, id like to say that i typed the first post using a tablet pc's handwriting software, and neglected to check what it input....it should have read like so...
I have the above mentioned laptop. The Gentoo install went flawlessly but I cant seem to get the WiFi to work. I followed the instructions at:
http://www.fwconsult.com/laptop-install.html
and
http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html
But the modprobe acer_acpi command does not work. ls acer_acpi yields:
acerotype.ko
acerotype.o
acerotype.mod.o
acerotype.mod.ko
acerotype.c
this presents a problem since i cant run the modprobe acer_acpi at all (even after attempting twice) since it claims it doesnt exist. |
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blotto
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| teassumaire wrote: |
But the modprobe acer_acpi command does not work. ls acer_acpi yields:
acerotype.ko
acerotype.o
acerotype.mod.o
acerotype.mod.ko
acerotype.c
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I assume this is ls of the acer_acpi directory, this is mine-
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$ ls -al acer_acpi
total 128
drwxr-xr-x 3 albert users 4096 Sep 19 01:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 44 albert users 4096 Oct 4 16:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Sep 19 01:43 .acer_acpi.ko.cmd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7170 Sep 19 01:43 .acer_acpi.mod.o.cmd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9817 Sep 19 01:43 .acer_acpi.o.cmd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 15 18:08 .tmp_versions
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 38 Aug 28 09:58 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 18007 May 8 2002 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 1909 Aug 28 10:00 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 1604 Aug 27 18:19 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 185 Aug 28 10:01 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 10558 Aug 28 09:57 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 albert users 10252 Aug 28 09:48 acer_acpi.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9847 Sep 19 01:43 acer_acpi.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 454 Sep 19 01:43 acer_acpi.mod.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2128 Sep 19 01:43 acer_acpi.mod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8600 Sep 19 01:43 acer_acpi.o
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teassumaire
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Could you possibly post a link to the tar file you downloaded? Maybe there was an error in the ones i have. |
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blotto
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Hi I downloaded the file acer_acpi-0.2.tar.gz from the link you posted above.
if I look in the archive with ark the the contents are
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acer_acpi/
AUTHORS
COPYING
INSTALL
Makefile
NEWS
README
acer_acpi.c
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Just did the usual
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#make
#make install (as root)
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