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[Olivier Samyn <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy:
With your kernel build, wireless , sound, brightness and sleep keys work OK ( just as fine as the custom build I used) on my eeepc 701.

The only change I need to get everything working out of the box is to
add rfkill_input to /etc/modules (maybe some hal magic should do it for
me somewhere).

So I suppose with this patch applied and delivered with Ubuntu's kernel,
this patch may be closed.

To answer to Sitsofe remark: I see two possibilities to address the pciehp_force=1 problem:
- Either, Matthew  proposed patch to work around this problem should also be applied ( http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123549146723314&w=4 ).
- Or, as this option is not installed by any package on Ubuntu, only people upgrading from intrepid (or another version) and who modified their grub configuration should be impacted (I suppose such guys should also be able to remove the option).
It's problematic on debian installation because it's added by the eeepc-acpi-scripts package. But this one is not installable in Ubuntu (see bugs #262679 and #328989).

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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: Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in CentOS: Fix Released
Status in “acpi-support” source package in Debian: Fix Released
Status in Fedora: Fix Released
Status in Mandriva Linux: 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.