I did a clean install of Feisty Beta and the problem still happens. Ndiswrapper was required to get the WIFI internal modem working.
But in addition, upon a new boot it does not work. You have to sleep the machine and wake it up ... then the lights flash on the front and it works. This is true for both an Acer Aspire 3000 and an Aspire 5000. So in summary you have to put the machine into a suspend mode and wake it up. Suddenly the WIFI works. So on a clean boot the ACPI works for all the peripherals to bring them on line except the WIFI card. Suspend the machine and wake it up and ... it works. But on the next clean boot it is asleep again. Ian. Ian Soutar said the following on 28/03/07 11:37 AM: > I believe it is an ACPI problem. The WIFI modem is normally asleep and > cannot be used until the computer is put to sleep and awakened again. > It is not an ndiswrapper issue although it is necessary to use > ndiswrapper. There is a light on the computer that shows the WIFI is > awake and running. After a cold boot you cannot use the WIFI until you > do the sleep / wake thing. > > I will try the test when I get home ... both the Acer 3000 and Acer 5000 > face the same problem. > > Ubuntu is the ONLY distro that allows the WIFI to wake up ... so you > guys have it almost right! > > Actually that is not quite true ... Puppy linux, when you use the kernel > command acpi=off causes all peripherals to wake up. In this case it > works fine but of course the computer cannot be put to sleep or to > hibernate. > > Ian. > > > Andreas Gnau said the following on 28/03/07 11:20 AM: > >> Maybe I'm a little bit confused, tired or maybe it is my lack of >> language skills, but could you please outline the problem again? Is this >> rather an ACPI-problem or an ndiswrapper-problem? >> >> >From what I understood your wifi (or is it the modem?) which you are >> running with ndiswrapper works without any problems, but you have to >> push a keycombo in order to make it work again after waking the laptop >> up. Please provide lspci and lspci -n, urls to the driver(s) and the >> output of dmesg after enabling it again after waking up. >> >> >> > > -- ACPI-ndiswrapper on Aspire 3000 laptop doesn't wake until function button pressed https://launchpad.net/bugs/38540 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
