Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop

[Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>]

On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 16:32 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@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.