Tuesday, January 27, 2009

the death of fsca16xx and the birth of cellwriter as an HIM plugin

sadly to inform that my amilo laptop has gone to a new way and it is no longer in my possession. so i will not be able to continue maintaining the fsca16xx script. there are a few open issues (like hotkeys daemon going bezzerk) which i haven't fixed yet, so my advice is to stop using the script. instead i would advice that acerhk or acer_acpi modules will be loaded and used ( running acerhk example: sudo modprobe acerhk force_series=5020 autowlan=1).

on a different subject i have started a new project named himcellwriter which integrate the magnificent
cellwriter hand writing recognition application (applause to the author) as an hildon input method plugin. currently i am attempting to revive a pentium 3 500mhz desktop computer from scrap to be my main machine that will replace the amilo i used to have.

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notes:
1) if you have been using the script and something which happens to be 'hotkeys' is eating your cpu on ubuntu interpid, i suggest that you remove it by running:
sudo apt-get remove hotkeys
after removal, the "Activate/Deactivate" popup will stop appearing.

2) if you're new to ubuntu and have amilo li1718 or a1650g run the following 3 commands to add wireless led support without using the script- this will work until acerhk will be removed from ubuntu (probably 9.04 or 9.10):
$ echo options acerhk autowlan=1 force_series=5020 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/options
$ echo acerhk | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
$ sudo rmmod acerhk > /dev/null 2>&1 ; sudo modprobe acerhk autowlan=1 force_series=5020

please let me know if it does not work as i was unable to test it...

EDIT: i made a mistake in step 2 and it is fixed now. i will search a fix to what it caused and publish it soon

10 comments:

roadrash said...

Your script has helped very many people who would have probably given up on installing linux on the amilo. Thank you very much.

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Jox said...

Im truely grateful for your tips!!!
Thx to you ive now got a working set (Amilo a 1650g on Ubuntu).
Ive been trying for a couple of days without any luck and now with your script it took me less then a minute :D:D:D
1 que tho: how do i get the fancy fan button working? The only thing left for me...
Thx alot again!!!!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much! I had the wifi working, but could not enable the switch to turn it on. Those 3 little lines worked a treat an I am online!

For ref: Mint Felicia on li1718 - working great.

Thumbs up matey!

Jox said...

I semm to have a little problem with this... It works for a while, but if i have the computer turnd off fe over night i have to apply the code again in order to get it working, and when that happens i have to manually connect to hidden network.

When i type the commandstring i get access denied on the first 2, and the 3:d works and fires up the led...

Any idea on how i can get past this whole "forgetting-thingy"?

Regards

Jox

DamagedSpline said...

the first 2 lines are for that forget thingy. anyway i updated the first 2 lines as suggested by apsttl on amilo-forums. please retry now.

Jox said...

I changed to the lines u changed the other day (like yesteday or so) still the same this morning tho...Gonna try again later today, but i still got acces denied when trying to enter them yesterday

Anonymous said...

Thanks it worked like a charm :) I have amilo li1718. I am testing 9.04 right now, wifi was working fine, but hotkeys wasn't and thanks to you now evrything works just fine :)

Thanks again !

Charles Filorux said...

Hi there, thanks for the script. It seems to have worked on getting wireless going on a laptop a few thousand kilometers from me. The laptop says "AMILO Li 1718" in dmidecode, and is installed with Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. It responds well to "options acerhk autowlan=1 force_series=5020" as you suggested. I also downloaded the development snapshot of madwifi, which may or may not have been necessary.