On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:06 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Bastien, > > > > > > hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the > > > > > feature > > > > > to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click > checkbox) > > > > > > > > > > on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it > > > > > > > > > > to enable: echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan > > > > > to disable: echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan > > > > > to get status: cat /proc/acpi/ibm/wan > > > > > > > > There's already killswitch support in NetworkManager, just make sure > > > > that the method for accessing those is supported in HAL. > > > > > > > > Not sure how that's going to be handled in the post-HAL world, Dan? > > > > > > starting with 2.6.31 we do have a proper /dev/rfkill interface that can > > > do all this properly without having to involve HAL, udev or similar. > > > > Goodie, will have to move gnome-bluetooth to using that scheme. > > > > Do you have any references to the API/ioctls for it? > > it is pretty simple actually. Check include/linux/rfkill.h and it is > just poll, read and write. Only one ioctl for rfkill-input replacement > in the future, but that is unimportant and will go away. That is it. > > http://git.sipsolutions.net/gitweb.cgi?p=rfkill.git;a=summary > > This contains a really simple rfkill userspace tool.
Looks good. Hopefully one of Dan or myself will pick it up and wrap it in GObject goodness to share in NM and gnome-bluetooth. Cheers _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
