On my Thinkpad X61, I have lots of problems on 2.6.26.1 when toggling rfkill switches and buttons, including kernel crashes, so I'm trying out 2.6.27-rc3. Rfkill seems much better behaved, but Network-manager is not very happy with it and no longer notices when the radio is killed.
I think this is because it uses the HAL killswitch interface org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch which calls the script hal-system-killswitch-get-power which calls hal-system-killswitch-get-power-linux which uses the binary hal-ipw-killswitch-linux to check /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rf_kill. But this file no longer exists. It seems to have been renamed to "/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill:rfkill2", which is extra annoying because it's not just a rename, now hal-ipw-killswitch-linux will have to find the "rfkill2" suffix. Seems like a kernel regression if upgrading breaks user applications. Or does this sound like a HAL bug? Or Network-manager? Or..? (tracking a single bit of state is getting way too complex these days...) -jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
