Ubuntu 9.04 and the wifi light

I've read a few inconclusive posts on this. Is there now a definitive solution to the non-functioning wifi light on the Acer Aspire 1 with Ubuntu 9.04? Not an emergency, but it'd be good to tidy up the mammoth installation and update project I ploughed through yesterday.

The same goes for the left-side storage card issue.

Thanks.

 

Definitive, perhaps not, but here's what works for me:

1. Wifi light problem: I'm running Sickboy's 2.6.28.9.sickboy.0.7 kernel. Wifi light works.

2. Left-side storage: not sure in which issue you're interested here. I've got the following line in /etc/rc.local

Code:

/sbin/modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1

and created /etc/modprobe.d/aa1.conf with the following content:

Code:

options sdhci debug_quirks=1

Both card readers work; neither has to be present at boot. Storage expansion, a la Linpus, is a no-go.

HTH

 

When I try to create that second file it won't allow it because of the slash symbol. Anything I'm doing wrong, or was it a typo?

Thanks.

 

oops. I think I may just have twigged that the modprobe thing is a folder with the aa1 bit as a file in....

 

Those files didn't make my SD cards workable, maybe they worked in tandem with the Sickboy kernel? I'll look into that - has it caused its own problems at all? Or could it?

Thanks.

 

They work (for me) with Sickboy's 2.6'.28.9.20090404 kernel, but don't seem to work with the current Karmic Koala alpha's kernel (2.6.30-5). Disappointing