Function Keys

The function keys work out-of-box for nearly everything that I've tried. However, the orange LED hardware switch on the front to toggle the wireless card does not work. This can be fixed using "acerhk". I compiled "acerhk" from source. Here is my DEB file, which worked fine for me.

In the terminal, type


Wireless LED Switch

To activate the orange LED wireless switch, in the terminal, type

sudo modprobe acerhk
sudo echo 1 > /proc/driver/acerhk/wirelessled

Open up gedit to add the options for ipw2200, in the terminal, type

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200

And using gedit, add to the file

options ipw2200 led=1

Ubuntu will need to be restarted.
Or, you could reload the ipw2200 module.
In the terminal, type

sudo modprobe -r ipw2200 && sudo modprobe ipw2200

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