On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:17:12PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs: line 99: > > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan: Permission denied > > This line says: > > test -w /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan && echo -n "$action" > > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan
Not on my machine: merkur:~# grep -n ".*" /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs | grep -C 5 99: 94: # For madwifi we need to check "operstate" instead. 95: if [ -w $DEVICE/operstate ] ; then 96: if [ "`cat $DEVICE/operstate`" = "up" ] ; then 97: # It's powered on. Switch it off. 98: ifdown $NET_IF 99: else 100: # It's powered off. Switch it on. 101: ifup $NET_IF 102: if [ -x /sbin/wpa_cli ] ; then 103: wpa_cli scan 104: fi (My grepping is probably wrong as the shell will likely not count empty and comment lines, right ?) > Could you please tell us the permissions you have along the path from /sys to > that (probably) non-existant wlan file? Sure: merkur:~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/ insgesamt 0 ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 bluetooth lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 bus -> ../../../bus/platform ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 display lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 driver -> ../../../bus/platform/drivers/asus-laptop ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 gps -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 infos ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 ledd ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 ls_level ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 ls_switch -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 modalias drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 power lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 subsystem -> ../../../bus/platform -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:23 uevent ---------- 1 root root 4096 10. Mai 16:13 wlan merkur:~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/ insgesamt 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 asus-laptop ... merkur:~# ls -l /sys/devices/platform/ insgesamt 0 ... drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 10. Mai 16:23 platform ... merkur:~# ls -l /sys/devices/ insgesamt 0 ... drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 10. Mai 16:11 devices ... merkur:~# ls -l / insgesamt 1049708 ... drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 10. Mai 16:11 sys ... merkur:~# I should note that this laptop does NOT have wlan hardware. Don't ask me how those weird permissions got there - this is a standard Debian install having been upgraded all the way from etch over the years. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
