On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 18:49 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Vladimir Botka <vbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:09:19 -0600 > > Jim Cromie <jim.cro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Im willing to disable the rfkill code thats shutting things down, > >> but would appreciate advice on how to do so, or whether theres > >> a simpler approach that avoids code changes (my hope). > > > > Install the rfkill utility and check the status [1]. Maybe you succeed > > to "rfkill unblock .." it. > > > > # rfkill list all > > 0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN > > Soft blocked: no > > Hard blocked: no > > > > thanks Vlado, that gets me more info (but no solution yet) > > 1 - with only built-in wifi card, I get a blank list. > > [j...@harpo ~]$ rfkill list all > [j...@harpo ~]$ lsmod | grep ipw > ipw2200 115811 0 > libipw 20827 1 ipw2200 > lib80211 4062 2 ipw2200,libipw > > 2 - once I plug in the pcmcia and usb cards, theyre both unblocked, > but the builtin (ipw2200) is still missing. > > [j...@harpo ~]$ rfkill list all > 1: phy1: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > 2: phy2: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > > Blocking and unblocking alters the displayed state (as above) > but NM-applet says that all 3 are disabled.
Yes, for a number of reasons. First, we can't usually figure out which killswitch is for which wifi device. It's often just not possible, plus "platform" killswitches provided by your laptop BIOS aren't tied to a specific wifi device. Second, you're probably better off blacklisting the internal wifi driver modules so they simply don't load in the first place. Add the names (libipw, ipw2200) to to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to do this. If you rmmod ipw2200, what happens? Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
