-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howard Chu wrote: > 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. It's been a while since I was playing with Intel 2200 but I remember you had to pass the option to modules.d
options ipw2200 led=1 I don't really know if thats gonna work with new kernels though. Rob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBR5cgYbvLB8ABrzqYAQLhyQ//Vvrz7B0cyCJkfXULJbVEpSQPpFDir9Ph V0LMETxb+Er9zD6FTlRdsd+0UcfjajTTS6IwcJZ95j/YFPbfUFimWKGj24tXNxRo SLe1zaJiR7QMKifM0OJBn0D/J+sqOPnzSEFs9FOIvS4HZJDg8ingu5hnBjwB65p/ HnFACKebsKP2e10IcArHQEJK8PuH8qpDembWmNZ7bep2IUOYmZjxjTs5OL+1TJWi DJ3vVubbM8udmsl5fVqSLFMyvdqsMaxiRx05GDVXe/jHvpPIoP1dypTH8FZIrbv7 5GVeoXrhTkdxOIAN1HctN1FU3sgICqJ7++/Rh144hkrrltdxW9cGXtvvpajJnCs1 bBuuOMeXumBbFGxwnTtmy4zVsRx6t7zq5l221QmNogUZvsicVSzdk2Zyx2yIqzvv rffjgjCokp/a+UIqALl0zD2mW0j3XrwjU2lwwFSxzSnHlQcjCVmgynutqWIrLBGk NSU+Wx7RdpKYzaDESV836I8p0wCzZLJ9/zFcx/JxuZ49sunnsY3392Nn6+1i+qFe 7du0Nn7Cj4dlawMDPfwiIW16UPSNDsAag7JVQuQKrxl4wrxxFRiNnKgbkxmNjQ8U kY8oikjfAcy6gWo8QcvGHoCfUZ+2bdwAkC9wHDBOpjBKNhTaOwyUfDm+exPPfmfu 9+DZTAlSfaw= =qNvk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list