Bug#898260: systemd: HP notebook ZBook 17 G4 - WLAN hardware button not working

[René Krell]

Hello Michael,

yes, I'm interested, but I still had no success when following the
rough advises. I need more time for another attempt.

René



On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 00:29 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2018 13:53:29 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 udev 238-4
> > 
> > Am 09.05.2018 um 12:24 schrieb René Krell:
> > > When pressing it, the following lines are added to the
> > > /var/log/message
> > > s file:
> > > May  8 22:22:50 rkrell kernel: [40955.295433] atkbd serio0:
> > > Unknown key
> > > pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf8 on isa0060/serio0).
> > > May  8 22:22:50 rkrell kernel: [40955.295440] atkbd serio0: Use
> > > 'setkeycodes e078 <keycode>' to make it known.
> > > May  8 22:22:50 rkrell kernel: [40955.469669] atkbd serio0:
> > > Unknown key
> > > released (translated set 2, code 0xf8 on isa0060/serio0).
> > > May  8 22:22:50 rkrell kernel: [40955.469675] atkbd serio0: Use
> > > 'setkeycodes e078 <keycode>' to make it known.
> > > 
> > > I'd expect the WLAN hardware button to respond immediately on
> > > pressing
> > > it to toggle WLAN on/off.
> > 
> > 
> > It looks like you want to map that keycode to "wlan".
> > Typically this is done via a hwdb entry, Have a look at
> > /lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb for this.
> > 
> > See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes
> > how
> > you can create such a custom hwdb entry for your hardware.
> > 
> > Once that hwdb entry is working correctly, please consider
> > forwarding
> > this upstream at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/new
> 
> René, do you have any interest in following up on this bug report,
> ideally upstream?
> 
> Otherwise we'll have to close it unfortunately.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
>