From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: [PATCH 4/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature. Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:05:45 -0400 Message-ID: <11608131733755-git-send-email-len.brown@intel.com> References: <11608131691346-git-send-email-len.brown@intel.com> Reply-To: Len Brown Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:15251 "EHLO mga03.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752124AbWJNICw (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:02:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11608131691346-git-send-email-len.brown@intel.com> Message-Id: <28b779d127d3038ff83f42259d135a063b7cd848.1160812999.git.len.brown@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <288f3ad406460f03642a41bb945826891a7b866f.1160812999.git.len.brown@intel.com> References: <288f3ad406460f03642a41bb945826891a7b866f.1160812999.git.len.brown@intel.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:16 +0200 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stefan Schmidt , Len Brown From: Stefan Schmidt Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Acked-by: Borislav Deianov Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index 1672590..00b8cf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ detailed description): - LCD brightness control - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable + - Experimental: WAN enable and disable A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure @@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ with the following command: echo 'level ' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal +EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan +--------------------------------------- + +This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation +directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE +WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the +experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. + +This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra +Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can +be used: + + echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + +It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other +Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------ -- 1.4.3.rc2.g23bed-dirty