On Sunday 07 February 2010 14:18:43 Rafał Miłecki wrote: > So pressing something like Fn+FX can eventually be handled by BIOS and > can cause hardware (physical) enabling radio?
Yeah, could be the case. It could also be handled by another kernel driver (wmi). In no case will the wireless driver be able to modify the state. > In such a case Broadcom hardware doesn't know about this (wow, that's > weird), and so b43 driver doesn't know as well? As the result b43 > doesn't try to run wireless. Well, the only thing the driver can do is _observing_ that the radio is killed. > If we compile without rfkill we won't check for radio status, and we > will just try to use radio, that may be enabled at some point by BIOS. Yeah. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
