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

Kevin Goodsell kevin-opensource at omegacrash.net
Tue Dec 8 21:17:40 UTC 2009


Darren Salt wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

That's good to know, but I think that toggling the eeepc-laptop rfkill 
puts the ath9k rfkill in a broken state. Perhaps this is simply a bug in 
ath9k.

-Kevin



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