On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Fernando Andrés Muñoz Bravo
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> Hi guys.
>
> Recently, I've installed SL on a Asus R401V. Works fine, except because this
> laptop comes with keyboard backlight and several special function keys.
> Reading some forums and pages, I need to load asus_wmi module. Problem is, I
> cannot find this module into  oficial repositories (and I would'nt use
> other). Therefore, easiest way is to compile a new kernel.

Or use something that already exists. :) Have you looked at kernel-ml
from ELRepo?

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-ml

Akemi