Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill * Licence : BSD-style single-clause Programming lang: C Description : tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband. . rfkill uses /dev/rfkill, which is present in Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later. I'm choosing a git snapshot over 0.1 because it contains some functionality which will be of use in eeepc-acpi-scripts. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling I can't reach the brakes on this piano! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill * Licence : BSD-style single-clause Programming lang: C Description : tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband. . rfkill uses /dev/rfkill, which is present in Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later. I'm choosing a git snapshot over 0.1 because it contains some functionality which will be of use in eeepc-acpi-scripts. should be integrated in wirelesstools? ciao cate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:59:20PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill * Licence : BSD-style single-clause Programming lang: C Description : tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband. . rfkill uses /dev/rfkill, which is present in Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later. I'm choosing a git snapshot over 0.1 because it contains some functionality which will be of use in eeepc-acpi-scripts. It's been proposed already to integrate this tool into the wireless-tools package; you may want to check with the maintainer of said package (and upstream) to sort out where this is best integrated. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
I demand that Giacomo Catenazzi may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: [snip] * Package name: rfkill Version : 0.1-4-g9429740 [snip] rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband. [snip] should be integrated in wirelesstools? From a purely WLAN POV, yes, but it covers more than that; I think that you could equally well argue for integrating it into bluetooth. So no, it should stand alone. -- | Darren Salt| linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds,demon,co,uk| Northumberland | Army | + Output less CO2 = avoid massive flooding.TIME IS RUNNING OUT *FAST*. Captain, permission to hook up blender attachments to Mr Spock. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
