[Debian-eeepc-devel] [eeepc-acpi-scripts PATCH] rfkill bits for use with kernel 2.6.28

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Santi Béjar may or may not have written...

> 2008/12/6 Darren Salt <linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>:
>> I demand that Santi Béjar may or may not have written...
[snip]
>>> I'm running 2.6.28-rc5 without /e/a/a/wireless.sh and the wireless toggle
>>> works just fine. What I think should be done is to exit when
>>> /e/a/a/wireless.sh detects that the rfkill is in use.
>> No. I'm using /etc/network/interfaces: re-enabling the device would leave
>> the interface unconfigured but with ifupdown thinking that it's
>> configured, so I'd have to run "ifdown ra0; ifup ra0" as root.

> With an old laptop I had an external wireless card (pccard) and everything
> worked fine without all this. Maybe it was the hotplug subsystem that did
> all this, but then why it doesn't happen now?

Could be a configuration issue here... hmm, I'd forgotten about hotplug;
using "allow-hotplug" instead of "auto" seems to work fine – and cuts down
boot time! :-)

OTOH, the patch allows the display of "wireless on" when the interface has
been configured, rather than immediately...

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