Hi Henrique, not sure if it fits here, but still interesting.
On Mi, 02 Dez 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Ah, ok. NetworkManager is supposed to be able to deal with rfkill, too But probably only for WLAN, not WWAN. And then, I don't want install the whole bunch of horrible NM only to switch off my WWAN when I don't need it and want to save energy. > > This is currently only possible for the bluetooth in gnome, but > > not for my laptop's builtin WWAN and WLAN. > > Heh, already got some side comments about gnome interfering with > bluetooth rfkill from an user :-p I cannot comment on that, since I am not using bt. > > My program allows exactely that, and uses either DBus/HAL interface > > of /dev/rfkill. > > Just keep in mind that /dev/rfkill manipulates radios of a given _type_ > as a group, and that an user could have many radios of the same type, *Really*?? I was looking into the rfkill code since I reimplemented the protocol in my python applet and I don't see that. You can switch on/off one rfkill at a time, and that is NOT a group. So I am not sure what you mean, maybe I misunderstood you. > and want to manipulate just one. Also, touching any rfkill line _can_ > cause hotplug and hotunplug of devices. And? That is the right way, or? Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology prein...@jaist.ac.jp Vienna University of Technology prein...@logic.at Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) prein...@debian.org gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLOVIS (q.v.) One who actually looks forward to putting up the Christmas decorations in the office. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org