On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Leonardo, > >> >> I need to change the behavior of Fn+F1 key command to turn off the >> >> wifi just like user clicking on the panel and turning it off. Now when >> >> i press Fn+F1 the wifi card is disable and the panel shows the wifi >> >> button disabled. Can dbus be used to turn off the card instead of >> >> disabling it? Which dbus interface should i use? >> > >> > what is your difference between a disabled WiFi and a switched off WiFi? >> >> Disabled wifi is when the rfkill of the driver is called, the panel >> shows that a device is there, but you can't turn it on and off (the >> button is disabled. >> Switched off is when the wifi network is down, this happend when you >> click the button to turn off the wifi network on the panel. >> >> Does it make sense? > > it sort of makes sense, but in the end there is also no difference here. > So if we have a WiFi card that supports RFKILL, we will try to use > RFKILL to switch the device off. That way we ensure that all radio > activity is actually off. If no RFKILL is available, then the best we > can do is to bring the network interface down. > > So from a ConnMan perspective both are treated the same. My expectation > is that all WiFi cards have a RFKILL switch. And that is true for all > cfg80211 enabled cards since they have at least a soft RFKILL switch.
Yeah, the card supports rfkill, but i think the rfkill is not actually used when i turn off with the switch. > > The important question is what hardware you are talking about. If this > is a staging WiFi driver, then this whole situation becomes a bit more > fuzzier. RTL8192SE Which kind of information can i provide? Do you want me to test any newer version of connman? > > Regards > > Marcel > > > _______________________________________________ > connman mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman > -- Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata International Syst S/A Metasys Tecnologia Software Engineer Metasys MeeGo Team [email protected] +55-31-3503-9040 "May the force be with you, always" "Nerd Pride... eu tenho. Voce tem?" _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
