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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On So, 15 Nov 2009, vick wrote:
> It's just a change in the dsdt table, in older versions there were 2 methods you can use to detect the presence of the wlan, wwan, wmax and bluetooth devices and the one that the sony-laptop module uses was removed. 

So it means tht it happens only on laptops where the BIOS has not been
updated, right.

Anyway, I have pushed some changes to the git repository so that you
can give the module paramter
	alt_rfkill=1
which will use this alternative method of quering.

If someone can test the current git sources on one of those laptops
that wouold be fine.

> There is some code in the module to detect the presence of a specific ACPI call but in this case it's the same call with different argument so I don't know if we can do something to autodetect it.

I was thinking that if it is model specific one can check the model, but
as far as I understood this is a question of age of bios.

Thanks a lot

Norbert

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