[Debian-eeepc-devel] rfkill, eeepc-laptop, and ath9k

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Kevin Goodsell may or may not have written...

> I know this isn't really an ACPI issue but it must affect the ACPI scripts,
> and I haven't been able to find any useful information anywhere else, so
> I'm wondering what if anything you guys know about it.

> The problem as I understand it, is that eeepc-laptop and ath9k both provide
> an rfkill interface for the wifi device. These two interfaces are different
> somehow and don't play nice together.
[snip]

> Does anyone have any idea why we have these two rfkill interfaces, what the
> "right" way to handle this is, and/or whether anyone is planning on fixing
> this? I find surprisingly little about the problem by googling.

The rfkill interface provided by eeepc-laptop has ACPI and the BIOS
WLAN-enabled flag behind it; consequently, toggle this one, and the setting
will persist over a reboot.

The rfkill interface provided by $WLAN_MODULE is kernel-only.

Which is the right one depends on what you want.

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