[Debian-eeepc-devel] wish for eeepc-acpi-scripts : wifi/bluetooth alternate toggle

Darren Salt linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 20 15:06:40 UTC 2010


I demand that giggzounet may or may not have written...

> On several eeepc there are bluetooth and wifi. On the eeepc 1201n there is
> just one button to control them : the fn+f2 hotkey. Under w7 when we push
> fn+f2 one time, we enable both wifi and bluetooth; when we push another
> time wifi is on, bluetooth is off; when we push another time wifi is off,
> bluetooth is on; and when we push another time both are disabled. the
> enable/disable occurs a few seconds after the push in order to have the
> time to choose.

> With the actual eeepc-acpi-script, when I push fn+f2 it toggles the wifi
> through rfkill. it works great. I have seen that there is in the files the
> bluetooth toggle. Is it possible to have a similar alternate toggle like
> under w7 ?

The Fn-F2 handling is done entirely in-kernel. While it could be done using
another key, that in-kernel handling makes it not worthwhile.

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