From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Output message at startup if hardware switch for radio is off
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:24:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711101624.50808.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4734e389.AF3t4zZIQw1IryOf%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Friday 09 November 2007 23:47:37 Larry Finger wrote:
> Now that the radio is controlled by rfkill, there is a potential
> difficulty in helping a new user get started, as it is unlikely
> that they will have setup rfkill. This patch prints a message if
> the interface is started with the hardware switch off.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
>
> John,
>
> This patch is intended for the everything branch of wireless-2.6.
>
> Larry
Well... Pressing the rfkill button is the _FIRST_ thing that I would
do, if the device does not work. I'm wondering why people have a problem
with that. On other operating systems it's the very same. On Windows there
is no dmesg.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 22:47 [PATCH] b43: Output message at startup if hardware switch for radio is off Larry Finger
2007-11-10 15:24 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-11-12 12:36 ` Holger Schurig
2007-11-13 15:22 ` Dan Williams
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