Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:19 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state controls the

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 18.02.2010 02:19, schrieb f...@kokkinizita.net: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state controls the wifi device.

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread fons
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: Use the rfkill utility from core. It will display the rfkill devices and modify their state. As James said, using the sysfs interface is depreacted and it will disappear soon. (/me reads rfkill.c) Rfkill depends on the sysfs

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread kludge
Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it just can't be disabled. unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi event-handling in userspace, so then you can /dev/null fn+f2. acpi-eeepc-generic

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread epinull
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge drklu...@rat-patrol.org wrote: Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it just can't be disabled. unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic. acpid puts acpi

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge drklu...@rat-patrol.org wrote: Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it just can't be disabled. unless

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread epinull
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge drklu...@rat-patrol.org wrote: Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Mu investigations where that the BIOS controlled Fn+F2, but it could be the kernel module which I did not suspect at the time and so have not tested. On my EeePC 1000, bios previous to revision 1003 did not controlled Fn+F2; acpi-eeepc-generic needed to be used to enable/disable wifi. On newer

[arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
Hello all, A few days ago I installed Arch on an EEE-1000H. Things work very well and I'm sort of impressed by how easy it worked out to be (there were a few hickups but nothing serious). Today I discovered one possible problem. The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the wireless

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread kludge
On 02/17/2010 05:16 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Today I discovered one possible problem. The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's no more wifi. that's expected behavior, as indicated by the 'wifi' icon in blue on

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill There are rfkill entries in /sys I'll try, but AFAIK rfkill is for bluetooth. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:40:44PM -0600, kludge wrote: On 02/17/2010 05:16 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Today I discovered one possible problem. The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's no more wifi.

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread kludge
On 02/17/2010 06:03 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: is it safe to presume you installed acpi-eeepc-generic? because it has a configuration file that let's you customize every key combination. If that is a package name, no. Everything seems to work without it, including e.g. the display

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-17 Thread fons
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill You're right: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0/state controls the wifi device. Problem solved. Thanks ! -- FA O tu, che porte,