Problem with wireless switch

[lonthong]

Hello all,
this is my very first experience with Sabayon.
I successfully installed Gnome 64bit version with no issue on to my laptop (BenQ P41, AMD Turion X2 TL60, Radeon X1100, Realtek ethernet, Atheros AR 5006EG)
However, I am facing minor problem with the wireless switch.
By the way I am dual booting with windows Xp home 32bit. To activate wireless I had to press Fn+F12
Pressed once : blue led on, wireless on
Pressed twice: orange led on, wireless off - bluetooth on
Pressed 3 times: pink led on, wireless on - bluetooth on
Pressed 4 times: no led, wireless off - bluetooth off

If I pressed Fn+F12 while Sabayon is still booting, everything worked fine; pressed once: blue led on, network manager can connect to my home router. pressed twice: orange led on, bluetooth on but wireless remains on. pressed 3 times: pink led on, bluetooth and wireless on. Pressed 4 times: led off, bluetooth off, wireless still on

However if I pressed Fn+F12 once sabayon finished booting, it does not work at all; i.e. pressed Fn+F12 once: no led, wireless off (I can not wake it up).Pressed twice: orange led on, bluetooth on - wireless off. Pressed 3 times: still orange led, bluetooth on - wireless off. Pressed 4 times: led off, bluetooth off - wireless off.
Bottom lines: I can not activate wireless switch once Sabayon finished booting.
To be fair, I also faced the exact same problem with Arch Linux....

Dmesg gave me the following indication:
[ 747.927495] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xc0 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 747.927511] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e040 <keycode>' to make it known.

Can anybody help me to solve this minor annoyance??
Thank you

[raman]

Cuz this is not problem with distro. My work on another distros learn me smth. The 99% problems ARE NOT related with a distro, but DE or linux drivers, etc.

And what piss me off and I sometimes very angry, that the some reason ,the same problems are show up in linux from looong time, sometimies are solved and show up again, sometimes never had solution.
Gnome is changing in some monstrum, KDE is growing bigger, but simple and not simple problems with this DE and another DE are showing up all the time!!!

So why you ppl working on DE don't spend some time to repare some bugs, but you spend a lot of time, to add another useless fireworks to DE!!!

Some distribution give you DE almost with clear state like Sabayon, Gentoo, etc, that should be working ok instantly, but often not working ok without some changes.
Some distros like Mandriva, Suse, etc. are hard working to resolve problems with DE on themselves, spending a lot of time, and often with new realese of DE must start work again from the begining.
It's crazy! Why DE ppl didn't take ideas from distro ppl and put together with DE? Mandriva have nice menudrakes, nice scripting, the same Suse, etc, etc.
For some time about 5 years, maybe more, I see that a little is changing in DE, they are adding functionality, but the speed of changes are so slowly

[Fitzcarraldo]

lonthong, looks like either a keymapping issue or, alternatively, perhaps the rfkill utility might help. To give you some background reading to experiment with your keyboard mapping, have a look at the threads Re: FN keys ... and keyboard remapping and virtual keyboards. To read about the rfkill utility, see the thread: Can't enable wireless - RF_KILL problem? [Solved].

[lonthong]

# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

As informed, once I arrived at the desktop there is no way to activate the switch (Fn+F12)