On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:57 +0200, dragoran wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +0000, yelo_3 wrote: > > > >> The rfkill bug was recently corrected in svn > >> My question is: since now lots of notebooks with a wireless hotkey are not > >> supported by hal, and only emit ACPI or other events, wouldn't it be > >> easier to code a rfkill hal emulation that can be controlled by a binary > >> executable /usr/bin/toggle_rfkill? > >> > > > > HAL should be fixed to work with ACPI-based laptops. For now, I'd > > suggest a small daemon that monitors ACPI events (or, have acpid callout > > scripts write the status to a file somewhere), and then add a section to > > the HAL rfkill script to read that file for rfkill status. > > > > Dan > > > what about the hardware switch found on some intel based laptops? there > is no acpi event or anything like this... the drivers get the info from > the firmware and print a message to dmesg. should the hal rfkill switch > parse this? or should this be fixed in the intel drivers? (send some > kind of event?)
No, until the kernel rfkill framework lands, the HAL callout for GetPower should check the value of /sys/class/net/eth0/device/rf_kill and SetPower should echo a value to that field. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
