On 31 July 2014 19:40:07 CEST, Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote: >On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, "Mick" <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > > So I got a new Lenovo G50. >> > > I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be >> quite Linux >> > > friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). >> > > >> > > There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop >which >> > > apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other >> things >> > > doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is >> there any >> > > way to change this? >> > > >> > > Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi >> toggle via >> > > windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with >> freedos). >> > > >> > > I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as >> suggested by >> > > yet another Google search result. >> > >> > What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to >> override any >> > hotkey setting. >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Mick >> >> The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no >> hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without >> any problems. >> > >I don't really understand the exact purpose of that module. Touchpad, >brightness control, sound control, camera, radio everything works out >of >the box without the module. Except that I'm not able to toggle airplane >mode using the hotkey, but that's not a big issue.
I am not familiar with that module. But in a long distant past I wrote a module to handle the special keys on an ASUS laptop which were exposed via ACPI. I always assume these modules add support for special keys and settings not handled by any other driver. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
