Continuing Synaptic Touchpad issues

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Unfortunately, I'm headed out of town on Friday so this is a "seagull 
comment" (fly in, crap all over the place, then leave) but I just 
managed to get my Synaptics Touchpad working on an HP Pavilion zv6015 
with test 3 x86_64.  The *really dumb* trick turned out to be to 
recompile the kernel with psmouse as a module.  Doing a simple "modprobe 
-r psmouse" followed by a "modprobe psmouse" is sufficient to find the 
Synaptics touchpad.  It then appears to work in both text (gpm) and 
X-windows.

Now if somebody has any advice as to getting the wireless NIC (Broadcom 
4306) working when the radio seems to be stuck in the "off" mode, let me 
know.  I'm using ndiswrappers and the driver appears to load with no 
problems but I'm pretty sure the radio is "off" and seems to want to 
remain off despite anything I've tried.  If all else fails, next trick 
is to try installing wine and seeing if I can get the windows controls 
to let me turn it on.

Cheers