On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:23 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 23:21 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:34 +0000, yelo_3 wrote: > > > >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 > > > > > > I have acpid installed. > > > I have a script that manually changes /sys/class/net/eth1/device/rf_kill > > > what else should I add to the script, to talk to hal rfkill? > > > > I whipped something together in about 30 minutes for ipw2200 and ipw2100 > > users. You don't need to add anything to that acpi-triggered script; > > you need to do the following using the attachments I've provided > > (locations assume Fedora): > > > > cp 10-ipw-rfkill-switch.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/ > > cp hal-system-ipw /usr/libexec/hal-system-ipw > > chmod 755 /usr/libexec/hal-system-ipw > > cd /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux > > patch -p0 < /path/to/hal-system-killswitch-get-power-linux.diff > > > > Restart HAL, and you're good to go. > > > > davidz/bastien: comments? the shellscript could possibly be better of > > course. > > If only it was that easy ;) > > You need to disable your script for Dell laptops, in the fdi, otherwise > you end up with 2 levels of rfkill, one at the card level, one at .
Yeah; can we do ! in .fdi files as yelo_3 asked? Dan > The shell script should be in C, and probably use the UDI passed to it, > instead of looking for the device by hand. > > Finally, You don't handle values 2 and 3 in the Get. From the ipw2200 > README: > rf_kill > read - > 0 = RF kill not enabled (radio on) > 1 = SW based RF kill active (radio off) > 2 = HW based RF kill active (radio off) > 3 = Both HW and SW RF kill active (radio off) > write - > 0 = If SW based RF kill active, turn the radio back on > 1 = If radio is on, activate SW based RF kill > > NOTE: If you enable the SW based RF kill and then toggle the HW > based RF kill from ON -> OFF -> ON, the radio will NOT come back on > > You can also support the ipw3945 driver with the same settings. I > believe that the iwlwifi drivers are also supportable with the same > script. > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list