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endless_dark

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Registered: 2008-09-06

Posts: 29

Acer Aspire 5610 wireless button on startup

Hello everybody!
I have moved from Ubuntu to Arch, and for now, everything is great. But I have noticed some annoying issue and I want to know if it's possible to fix it.
The acer aspire 5610 has a wireless button and a led placed in the front part of the case, when you activate it, it turns on the wireless.
When I select Ubuntu in the grub menu, it always turns wireless on automatically when booting, despite, when I boot Arch I have to turn it on manually, other-way if I don't activate it during the boot up process, I have no wireless, even if I press it after the login screen has appeared. If I forgot to turn it on I have to reboot, and the wireless button will remain on.

So, my question is, is there anyway to always activate that wireless button while booting up, as Ubuntu does? I guess there must be!

Thank you in advance!

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vae77

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Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 75

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Re: Acer Aspire 5610 wireless button on startup

Very unsure it will work, but may be a try:
sudo iwconfig wlan0 txpower off

It will enable the radio for wlan0 interface.

Last edited by vae77 (2010-08-28 20:13:53)

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Labello

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Registered: 2010-01-21

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Re: Acer Aspire 5610 wireless button on startup

what kind of network managing do u use? i got some similar scenario with my belinea o.book but with network-manager and nm-applet i can switch on wifi after bootup and the nm-applet shows all wifi-access-points in range. :-)

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endless_dark

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Registered: 2008-09-06

Posts: 29

Re: Acer Aspire 5610 wireless button on startup

I'm using wicd

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Sorry for my English!