Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think this must be a fairly common way for HP at least to do it. The > switch on my HP dv5120us feels like a momentary of some sort, and in > windows it turns the radio on and off. However it seems to be a bit > confused for linux, if its on, and the led in the hinge is on, then > there's a 50% chance the radio is on. Tapping the button in linux turns > off the led, but never turns it back on, so I have to tap the button and > restart the network, repeat till the led comes on. However, iwconfig and > iwlist appear to report that it is functioning when in fact it is not > until the magic twanger combo of button taps and network restarts finally > manages to enable the led again. > > In other words, it appears that button status and led status to make it > work are a real crap shoot. Communication between the button and the > radio certainly seems broken on my lappy. It BTW has a bcm4318 radio in > it.
With the radio_enable patch, The light should come on when the switch enables the radio; however, the interface must also be up for the light to be on. On my HP dv2125nr, I have a slide switch; however, the interface is a Dell 1390, which is a BCM4311 chip. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
