Comment 3 for bug 250732

I have a fujitsu seimens amilo 1718 and I can confirm that Ubuntu 8.10 does not recognise the hotkeys
When I used Ubuntu 7.10 I used a modified version of acerhk thanks to the instructions at http://damagedspline.blogspot.com/
This involved removing Madwifi drivers and using the Ndiswrapper instead with the drivers for windows XP
That should not be neccessary now as the support for the wireless card is now taken care of by the madwifi atheros driver at installation
The problem remains though that the wireless button on the laptop which operates once for wireless on, and then again for wireless off is not recognised and does nothing.
The modification of acerhk forced the module to autowlan=1 and force_series=5020 and in addition modprobe.d was to tell the system to load acerhk at boot ( apparently it would not load the module because the laptop is not recognised as an acer)

The problem is much simplified now though, because as soon as the wireless key can be enabled the setup for wireless will just be a matter using net-applet to configure the network