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    Question Problem installing acerhk driver for Acer laptop

    I have an Acer Travelmate C314XMi laptop. The bluetooth device is controlled by a software switch rather than a hardware switch. In order to get it to work, I need to install the acerhk driver. The driver is not working and causing syslogd to spit stuff at me.

    Kali version: 32-bit, GNOME
    Kali installation: HDD

    Error message:
    Code:
    root@TABLET:~/acerhk-0.5.35-pat# modprobe acerhk
    Killed
    root@TABLET:~/acerhk-0.5.35-pat# 
    Message from syslogd@TABLET at May 22 20:53:02 ...
     kernel:[ 1530.183946] Process modprobe (pid: 4817, ti=c44ce000 task=ed8a55b0 task.ti=c44ce000)
    
    Message from syslogd@TABLET at May 22 20:53:02 ...
     kernel:[ 1530.183951] Stack:
    
    Message from syslogd@TABLET at May 22 20:53:02 ...
     kernel:[ 1530.183998] Call Trace:
    
    Message from syslogd@TABLET at May 22 20:53:02 ...
     kernel:[ 1530.184277] Code: 74 23 66 81 fb 0f 03 74 1c 66 83 fb 13 74 16 66 81 fb 13 01 74 0f 66 81 fb 13 02 74 08 66 83 fb 25 74 02 eb 05 e8 b2 00 00 00 c3 <55> 8b ec 83 c4 fc 66 89 45 fe 66 89 5d fc e8 da 00 00 00 73 11
    
    Message from syslogd@TABLET at May 22 20:53:02 ...
     kernel:[ 1530.184360] EIP: [<c00fdec0>] 0xc00fdec0 SS:ESP 0068:c44cfdc4
    ^C
    root@TABLET:~/acerhk-0.5.35-pat#
    I've been working on this all week and here's the steps I take to get me to the above point. (I'm really good at installing now! haha)
    1. Fresh install to HDD (nothing else on HDD)
    2. apt-get update
    3. apt-get upgrade
    4. Install NVIDIA driver (http://docs.kali.org/general-use/ins...-on-kali-linux)
    5. Install build-essential and kernel source (http://docs.kali.org/development/rec...i-linux-kernel)
    NOTE: I'm not sure if that's needed, but "prepare-kernel-sources" is in my notes from going through this for BT5.
    6. Download latest acerhk driver (http://sourceforge.net/projects/acer...ubuntu_11.04-/)
    7. Edit Makefile changing line 21 from looking for kernel 2.6 to 3.7. (granted, a greater than or equal to is probably a better solution)
    8. make
    9. make install
    10. modprobe acerhk

    Step 10 is where things derail and I get the error in the above code block.

    Thanks for taking a look.
    -JtG

    P.S. - acerhk is NOT just for the extra buttons or the indicator lights, it's what actually turns on my internal bluetooth adapter. I don't care about the buttons or lights, I just want my internal bluetooth adapter to function rather than having to go buy a USB bluetooth adapter.
    Last edited by JtG; 2013-05-25 at 17:22.

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