On Fri, November 30, 2007 18:39, Stefan Pampel wrote: > wifi cards based on atheros chips running with madwifi-drivers[1] can't > diabled by pressing Fn-F5. This comes through a different structure in > /sys/class/net/[DEVICE]/* . The script /etc/acpi/ibm-wireless.sh calls > a function called toggleAllWirelessStates in the file > /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs which normaly does the on/off > switch. The function gather information out of > /sys/class/net/[DEVICE]/device/power/state > or > /sys/class/net/[DEVICE]/device/rf_kill > '0' for off and '1' for on. The madwifi-driver puts the power in fo in a > different place > /sys/class/net/[DEVICE]/operstate > with 'up' and 'down' . > > Changing the function toggleAllWirelessStates can help to fix this, see > the attached patch.
Hi Stefan, Thanks for contributing. Next time when you send a patch, please make sure you don't change any whitespace (tabs!) on the lines that you don't touch, I had to rediff this to be able to properly review the patch! As for the patch, do I understand it correctly that with madwifi the ifup/ifdown state corresponds to killing the wireless radio? Cheers, Bart
