On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +0000, yelo_3 wrote: > The rfkill bug was recently corrected in svn > My question is: since now lots of notebooks with a wireless hotkey are not > supported by hal, and only emit ACPI or other events, wouldn't it be easier > to code a rfkill hal emulation that can be controlled by a binary executable > /usr/bin/toggle_rfkill?
HAL should be fixed to work with ACPI-based laptops. For now, I'd suggest a small daemon that monitors ACPI events (or, have acpid callout scripts write the status to a file somewhere), and then add a section to the HAL rfkill script to read that file for rfkill status. Dan > In this way the events can be mapped to this executable, and most laptops > will gain this feature! > > Is this a good idea? If it's not who should we file bugs to have this support > added? to hal? to the kernel? > > > > > ___________________________________ > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: > http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
