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[rayhaque <rayhaque@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 701 4G Surf.  I'm running the latest "daily" of Intrepid -
updated this morning.  Confirming that hot-keys do not work.

F1 (Suspend) disables networking momentarily, and then restores it.
Here is what I catch in /var/log/messages ...

Sep 17 10:12:24 ray-laptop gnome-power-manager: (ray) Hibernating computer. Reason: The suspend button has been pressed.
Sep 17 10:12:29 ray-laptop kernel: [  208.652012] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Sep 17 10:12:29 ray-laptop kernel: [  208.826229] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Sep 17 10:12:29 ray-laptop kernel: [  208.826448] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Sep 17 10:12:29 ray-laptop gnome-power-manager: (ray) Resuming computer

F2 (Wireless Toggle) - Pressing has no effect, no logged output.

F3/F4 (Brightness) - Work fine!

F5 (External display toggle), F6 (application button) - No desired
effect, no fault found.

F7 (mute), F8 (Volume up), F9 (Volume down) - No effect, no logged
output.

Should these hotkeys be controlled with the eeepc_laptop driver?  I
cannot find an answer on this anywhere.  It seems that eeepc-acpi has
been deprecated in favor of this new module.  If that is the case, is
there a better place to report eeepc_laptop bugs?  I will do whatever I
can to help this effort.  :-)

rayhaque(at) Gmail(dot) com.

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EeePC Volume and Wireless Hotkeys Do Not Function Out-Of-The-Box with Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy LTS, Intrepid Alpha 1)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232170
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Status in “acpi-support” source package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “acpi-support” source package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
The Asus EeePC is a popular subnotebook computer.

With a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) the wireless (fn+f2) and volume hotkeys (fn+f7/f8/f9) do not function.

Expected function:
fn+f2: Toggle wireless
fn+f7: Mute/Unmute
fn+f8: Volume up
fn+f9: Volume down

Workarounds are documented here:
Wireless Hotkey: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly#wifi_hotkeys
Volume Hotkeys: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/getting_ubuntu_8.04_to_work_perfectly#hotkeys
Although I have not had much success at getting these working myself.

It would be great if these would work out-of-the-box with 8.04.1 or Intrepid.