Re: [gentoo-user] Ideapad-laptop

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On 31 July 2014 19:40:07 CEST, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com> wrote:
>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.

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.

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