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
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