Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

[David Kinyua <mathengejr@aim.com>]

For a second there you made me think that my emails are being handled
wrongly because you seem to start new threads alot.

I would also suggest that you search this list for previous responses
because most likely someone has had the same query sometime in the past
and someone on the list might have tried to help.
http://lists.debian.org/users.html

On 6/10/2010 8:34 AM, ABSDoug wrote:
> --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> 
>> Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you
>> need to:
> <<<snip>>>
> 
> Worked great, thank YOU so much! I'm online wireless in Debian typing this. (Now I've got some educational research in what I exactly did & how it worked)
> 
>> WIRELESS LED:
>>
>> To get your awesome wireless led to blink for you based on
>> traffic, put these lines in /etc/rc.local, just above the
>> string exit 0 (below doesn't work).
>>
>> #su
>> #(your root password)
>> now choose your editor of choice, i prefer gedit so I type the following
>> #gedit /etc/rc.local
> 
>> Now add the following two lines above (exit 0)
>  
>> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3 (For it to be a constant light change it to >“-3")
>> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1
> 
> Ok, I got you so far, but this next part... 
> 
>> Now for the wifi kill switch uses these keycodes (also to
>> use in rc.local):
> 
> Am I putting this (below), verbatim above (exit 0), or is this a file I need to open up in /usr/bin/...?
> 
> /usr/bin/setkeycodes e055 159
> /usr/bin/setkeycodes e056 158
> 
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