Hi Simon, I guess its because the same company or team to design the BIOS for Packard-Bell and Asus laptops. asus-laptop.ko will bind on an ACPI device whose HID is "ATK0100" or "ATK0101". You may find the string in the DSDT.dsl you posted. As I know, if a laptop has the ATK0100 in its DSDT and the behavior of the device is very similar.
I do not have an Asus laptop but have a Lenovo SL400 laptops. I tried to enable the hotkey an year ago. Corentin Chary saw the DSDT and was surprised its looks like an Asus DSDT. Only few lines added and the hotkey works. For those extra functions for your laptop, you may try them and if some of them are no function, please file another bug and ping me on IRC. I will see what I can do. If you are interested in writing an ACPI driver, you may start from the article Matthew Garrett wrote, its at http://lwn.net/Articles/367630/ -- [Packard-Bell EasyNote] asus_laptop problem: wifi https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612454 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
