On 12/29/2011 05:27 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Hi List, Just loaded our favorite OS onto my new ASUS laptop. Practically everything worked out of the box - I used the live DVD to check things out and installed from there. I have followed http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/553474-g73-asus-w... to get suspend working and also to get function keys working for LCD screen backlight controls working (Fn F5 and Fn F6). Upon further searches I find that there is a kernel module asus-wmi.ko available in some distros that also allows some of the other Asus functions to operate - of particular interest is the keyboard backlight (Fn F3 and Fn F4) as well as the master backlight on/off key to function.
Question, does anyone know where and how to locate this (asus-wmi.ko) and get it functioning under CentOS 6.2?
I am prepared to set up the required build environment - but need some assistance as this is really at the limits of my experience. I have rebuilt the kernel to remove patches with some success previously and will have to dust off this knowledge if required.
Best course of action is to ask help from ElRepo repository. they build and maintain many kernel modules.