ATTENTION: This HOW TO covers ONLY the installation of the acer_acpi module and NOT of the wireless adapter drivers.
Before you can go ahead and install the acer_acpi module you need to make sure you have some other tools installed.
UPDATED:
You'll also need the linux headers:
END OF UPDATE
Once this is done you can go ahead and install the acer_acpi.
First you should create a folder to keep all your downloads in one place.
Where USER_NAME is your actual user name.
Now go to the new folder
and download and install the package:
Load the acer_acpi into memory and activate the wireless:
And check if it worked:
You should get some output like this:
Right, this might have worked for now but you need to load and activate
acer_acpi every time your computer starts.
For this you can write a little start up script so you don't have to do it manually each and every time.
ATTENTION!
For Gnome type:
Or if you're running KDE type:
Paste the following code and save:
Make the file executable and add it to the appropiate linux run levels.
ATTENTION! Don't miss ANY of the characters in the following lines, especialy the dots in the third line!
Now check if it worked:
If you get any
No such file or directory messages then something must have gone wrong during the last couple of steps but your
acer_acpi is still installed and can be started manually if needed.
If you didn't get any error messages everything should be up and running. You can now restart the computer and, if you have already installed the wireless drivers, your wireless adapter should work fine and be ready to configure.
Before you can go ahead and install the acer_acpi module you need to make sure you have some other tools installed.
Code:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install build-essential
You'll also need the linux headers:
Code:
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Once this is done you can go ahead and install the acer_acpi.
First you should create a folder to keep all your downloads in one place.
Code:
mkdir /home/USER_NAME/download
Now go to the new folder
Code:
cd /home/USER_NAME/download
Code:
wget http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi-0.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf acer_acpi-0.3.tar.gz
cd acer_acpi-0.3
make
sudo make install
cd ../..
Code:
su
modprobe acer_acpi
chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
echo "enabled: 1">/proc/acpi/acer/wireless
exit
Code:
dmesg | grep acer_acpi
Code:
[17179594.992000] acer_acpi: Acer Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.3
[17179595.000000] acer_acpi: Wireless value 1
For this you can write a little start up script so you don't have to do it manually each and every time.
ATTENTION!
For Gnome type:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/acer_acpi_wireless_enable
Code:
sudo kate /etc/init.d/acer_acpi_wireless_enable
Code:
#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start|"")
modprobe acer_acpi
chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
echo "enabled: 1" >/proc/acpi/acer/wireless
;;
stop)
echo "enabled: 0" >/proc/acpi/acer/wireless
modprobe -r acer_acpi
;;
esac
ATTENTION! Don't miss ANY of the characters in the following lines, especialy the dots in the third line!
Code:
su
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/acer_acpi_wireless_enable
update-rc.d acer_acpi_wireless_enable start 39 S . start 34 0 6 .
exit
Code:
ls /etc/rcS.d/S39acer-acpi-wireless-enable
ls /etc/rc0.d/S34acer-acpi-wireless-enable
ls /etc/rc6.d/S34acer-acpi-wireless-enable
If you didn't get any error messages everything should be up and running. You can now restart the computer and, if you have already installed the wireless drivers, your wireless adapter should work fine and be ready to configure.