On Wednesday 24 December 2008 16:58:14 Gene Heskett wrote: > With all due respect Michael, if it has been disabled by the panel switch > such > as the one on my lappy, can it not be made to emit such an error message so > that we know we have to toggle that pushbutton?
We emit a message that the radio is disabled. The b43 driver has exactly one read-only bit to determine whether the radio is on or off. It polls that bit every second and displays a message when it got toggled. That's all we can do from within the driver. _If_ you can switch it by software, which is theoretically possible of course, then _not_ through the broadcom wireless PCI device. It has to be done through another device. So you must load the driver for that device and switch the signal. > On my HP- dv5120us, there is > no tactile feel, or any other means to determine the state of this switch, an > apparently push-push switch. The LED is no help cuz you can and do turn it > on and off at will regardless of the state of the switch. Having to push the > button and reboot to see if that fixes it doesn't seem like a very productive > way to spend an evening. So I give up and plug in a cable, hundreds of times > faster to get a network connection, or if on the road, to borrow a little > dlink tranceiver from the motel. That after all, is the target condition we > are trying to achieve. I think you should send this to HP. I really can't do anything about it. All I have is one single read-only bit. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
