On 02/03/2009 Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: Hi
> Thinkpads have an ACPI interface to the bluetooth device, > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth. Disabling the device this way does turn it > off, as verified by the "watch". (...) > So the takeaway, for now, appears to be that Thinkpads (maybe only in > some distributions) need a different way to suspend bluetooth. Any > suggestions on how to go about figuring out just how to proceed? Disabling the bluetooth via /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth seems to be equivalent to unplugging the device. In my experience (on a x61s) it is a good way to disable it and save power. I recently upgraded to kernel 2.6.28 (from 2.6.26). There I got /sys/class/rfkill/* switches. They seem to be the new interface to archieve the same (and are present for wlan and wwan too). Winfried -- http://www.tilanus.com xmpp:[email protected] tel. 015-3613996 / 06-23303960 fax. 015-3614406 _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
