On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 22:06 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
Have you reported your behaviour in a bug report?
I haven't, and it looks like a good thing that I didn't, because it
would appear that I really have no idea what was going on. I thought it
was loading a driver for a different wireless chip, but you're saying
that the acer_wmi module is supposed to load in addition to the wireless
chip driver module, but it has a bug?
--Greg
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Greg Woods <woods(a)ucar.edu>
wrote:
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 12:26 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> I cannot get wireless to work on my new Sony VAIO VPCEG
laptop. It has
> the ar9285 chip in it.
After screwing around with this for a day, I finally figured
out what is
going on. For some reason, it was also loading the acer_wmi
module, a
driver for a different type of wireless chip, and this was
screwing
things up. As soon as I did "modprobe -r acer_wmi", then
everything
worked. I just needed to blacklist this module
in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, and now the Atheros chip is
working
even after a reboot.
--Greg