On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 20:01 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:24:33PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > >> Expected behavior. If you don't want to kill any wireless, don't flip > >> the switch. I don't see real use-cases where you'd want to rfkill one > >> card but not others; > > > > Here's a real use-case: on my wife's laptop, the integrated wifi is > > misfunctionning. (It sees network but can only intermitently connect to > > them. It just happened one day, I am sure it is an hardware problem on > > this four year old computer.) We bought an USB dongle to have a reliable > > wifi. It would be nice to stop the integrated card in order to save > > battery time. > > > > That was a real case, I can imagine other cases where the integrated > > device doesn't have the good protocols (maybe it doesn't do g or n wifi > > networks), doesn't have the correct range, doesn't have the correct MAC > > address to be accepted by the router, and where one would like to use an > > external wifi card without the first one sucking power. > > > > Well, anyway, it sure is'nt a priority... > > Why not blacklist the driver for the defunct device? > > Larry I have to ask. How do you blacklist a driver? ======================================================================= We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! -- Bailey, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.2 ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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