Larry Finger wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Howard Chu wrote: >> >>> Following up on this thread >>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=120099366404038&w=2 >>> >>> KDE's kwifimanager was explicitly patched to toggle the Wireless LED on/off >>> on >>> Asus notebooks. It seems that the function really belongs in NetworkManager >>> instead. I patched my copy of NetworkManager 0.6.5 to add the function, the >>> patch is attached. It's probably not the cleanest approach, but it works >>> for me. >> No, this function belongs in the kernel or in HAL. Ideally the ASUS bits >> that >> keep track of rfkill need to be talking to the wireless LED too, or the bits >> that actually kill the wireless (right now that's callouts from HAL if the >> switch isn't hardwired to the card or handled in BIOS) need to do this. >> NetworkManager certainly isn't going to be coding workarounds for every >> laptop >> vendor to toggle stuff like the wireless LED. It really needs to be handled >> at >> a lower level than that. >> >> There's an rfkill layer in the kernel that stuff can use, and there's also an >> LED framework (though I'm not sure if that's generic or specific to only WLAN >> cards). If the ASUS LED is truly a software LED, then there need to be asus >> specific callouts in HAL (or the asus ACPI module should hook into the rfkill >> framework and toggle it from there) to handle this, not NetworkManager.
OK, that makes sense. I'm still running 2.6.22.x on my laptop but I'll look into what 2.6.24 is doing. > Which flavor of wireless card is in that Acer? The b43 driver uses the rfkill layer to handle the > wireless LED. It took a bit of fiddling to get it all to work as Michael Buesch (the one that added > rfkill to b43) does not have hardware with such a LED. All the requisite stuff made it to mainline > at 2.6.24-rc5 (or so). It works with NM or with if-up on my HP laptop. My Asus M6800Ne is using the Intel 2200. Thanks for the info. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
