From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:26:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051007172647.GA3505@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4344521C.8080302@woletz.de>
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:40:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Marcus Woletz wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your answer
> >
> > (and sorry for the inconvenience with the PM.
> > I was too stupid to send the answer to the list.
> > I hope it goes now to the right place and right
> > thread ;-)
> >
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > [...]
> > > What is the "hardware key"? And how is it detected by Linux?
> >
> > The Button in the notebook case that turns on and off
> > the WLAN interface. In the Samsung X20 it seems that the
> > button turns the interface on and off without interaction
> > with the OS.
>
> Then there's no way that Linux can generate an event based on it. Most
> likely it's just a hardware switch to the network device, my laptop has
> the same thing.
>
> So, sorry, I don't think this is going to work for you, unless you
> figure out some way for Linux to see the button.
Marcus, you may find something here:
http://rfswitch.sourceforge.net/
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-05 22:22 Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN Marcus Woletz
2005-10-06 16:53 ` Greg KH
2005-10-07 16:05 ` Marcus Woletz
2005-10-07 16:40 ` Greg KH
2005-10-07 17:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-10-07 17:26 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-10-07 17:31 ` Marcus Woletz
2005-10-07 17:36 ` Marcus Woletz
2005-10-07 18:06 ` Marcus Woletz
2005-10-07 18:22 ` Johannes Berg
2005-10-10 11:40 ` Sergey Vlasov
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