Package: hal Version: 0.5.9.1-4 Severity: normal HAL provides a method for accessing kill switches on various hardware (hal-system-killswitch-get-power-linux/hal-system-killswitch-set-power-linux). For example, NetworkManager uses those methods to kill the WiFi hardware when the user disables wireless networking.
On Dell hardware, HAL calls the dellWirelessCtl utility which handles the switching for WiFi, Bluetooth and WWAN. In Debian, libsmbios-bin places dellWirelessCtl in /usr/sbin, which is correct since only root can actually turn on and off killswitches. However, HAL calls /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl and fails. Besides not having a working killswitch, this results in repeated NetworkManager errors in syslog. Regards, Faidon -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20070618-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.6-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.114-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-8 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5-5 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
