W dniu 7 lutego 2010 14:22 użytkownik Michael Buesch <[email protected]> napisał: > 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.
Would it be good idea to add kernel-module-parameter hack like "ignore_rfkill"? -- Rafał _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
