On Thursday 18 January 2007 22:49, Larry Finger wrote: >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. > Humm, how long till that patch makes it to a fedora kernel? I haven't built a kernel yet for that lappy. I figure one or two a week on this box costs me enough blood.
>On my HP dv2125nr, I have a slide switch; however, the interface is a > Dell 1390, which is a BCM4311 chip. > >Larry -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
