My hardware needs a module to be blacklisted to work, how can I get this fix shipped?

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Published on 2010-12-09T18:02:23Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 18:00 UTC
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I have an Acer Timeline 1830T. When I install 10.10 and 11.04 it needs to have the acer-wmi module blacklisted for wireless to work.

I think I need to file a bug on the linux kernel but I am not sure. I've heard the term "quirk" being thrown around by developers when it comes to fixing something so that it works on certain pieces of hardware.

Is this indeed a kernel bug? What steps should I take to ensure that this gets reported so that everyone with my laptop doesn't have to go through this over and over?

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