I can confirm the same problem on Karmic/MBP 5,5 and that the backlights can be turned on with the following (from the wiki):
echo 255 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness -- Macbook Support Not Working According To Wiki https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
