On Monday 15 May 2006 17:27, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Some people are saying that instead of throwing and ACPI event we should be > > either use hotplug or internally just disable the radio and somehow inform > > the dscape stack that the radio has been disabled. > > > > What are peoples thoughts here, should we > > > > A. be handling this within our drivers and doing "what the user expects" and > > disabling the hardware radio, or > > On my HP laptop with bcm43xx wireless, the button disables the radio in > HARDWARE, and afaict the driver has no idea about it. The driver notices > that it's not connected and happily starts scanning again, unaware that > anything is wrong.
There are registers on the bcm43xx chip (0x158 and 0x49A) that indicate some "Radio is hardware-disabled" state. We currently don't use that flag correctly in the driver. Could you please assist me on testing if your switch actually toggles the bit? I think best place for this would be on irc.freenode.net #bcm-users - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
