Comment 53 for bug 857297

Great, glad to see it's working. The WMI interface is built on top of
ACPI, so acer-wmi won't work at all without ACPI enabled.

> Couple of questions:
> 1.) Without the patch installed, the work around enabled the wireless with blacklist on acer-wmi. Now that wireless is is working with the patch installed, and the work around and blacklist is not required, does the wireless work more effectively e.g. more stable, interface with power management better etc?

No, the patch just fixes acer-wmi to correctly read the state of the
wireless from the BIOS. It will have no effect on the stability of your
wireless performance. It just fixes the problem of network manager
refusing to use the wireless because of the (incorrect) soft block.

> 2.) The new release Ubuntu 11.10 is due around October 13th I think, but
> correct me if I'm wrong. Will this patch work with the new release? I
> was looking forward to some of the new features, Mozilla's Thunderbird
> email client, Deja Dup backup utility, the new 3D acceleration engine
> for faster rendering and better panel and launcher performance, and of
> course last but not least the new kernel 3.0.

It won't be in the initial release, but I'll get the fix put in for
updates to both oneiric and natty. You'll need to watch for a request to
verify the fix when that version of the kernel is in testing, otherwise
it may not get released.

> One thing to note is that setting acpi=off does remove the '0: acer-
> wireless: Wireless LAN' function and the soft hotkey does not work.
> Should I note this in the acpi Bug #856253?

No, that's completely expected, since acer-wmi depends on ACPI as I
noted above.