-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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?
Depends on how you get module options into your distribution. On mine, for example (Kubuntu -- and likely most modern distributions), it's /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, and adding a line similar to those already there. I have a situation like this with my girlfriend's laptop -- she has a card that apparently is "supported" by the 'acx' driver but only works with NDISWrapper. With 'acx' blacklisted, everything works fine. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGegWmb+gadEcsb4RAny9AKDZA9W/UVPDsHbh/xF2U3kjRz4irQCgzWiq ger12i7FYfZcxpRCllpWDeA= =m9wk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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