how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread yelo_3
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

Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +, 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

Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread dragoran
Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +, 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

Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread yelo_3
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

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2007-06-22 Thread Ajibade Gabriel
I have been unable to configure network for my ubuntu linux. The system hangs when i try to access the interface for configuration. Please help ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

Strange NetweorkManager behavior.

2007-06-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
Has anyone else seen this. Sometimes when I am connected to a wireless access point using nm-applet and NetworkManager the system in F7 says I am connected to a wired network. Any comments out there? -- -- === Hello... IRON

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2007-06-22 Thread Darren Albers
On 6/22/07, Ajibade Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been unable to configure network for my ubuntu linux. The system hangs when i try to access the interface for configuration. Please help Which interface? When it prompts you for the key? What type of card is this?

Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:57 +0200, dragoran wrote: Dan Williams wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:09 +, 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

Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:34 +, 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

Re: Strange NetweorkManager behavior.

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:40 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: Has anyone else seen this. Sometimes when I am connected to a wireless access point using nm-applet and NetworkManager the system in F7 says I am connected to a wired network. Any comments out there? Do you mean that the laptop says