From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Schmidt Subject: [Patch 3/3] ibm-acpi: Add documentation for wan feature. Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20060922101945.111263030@datenfreihafen.org> References: <20060922101913.276298370@datenfreihafen.org> Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline; filename=ibm-acpi-update-doc-with-wan-feature.patch Sender: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org Errors-To: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: borislav@users.sf.net Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, jeremy@goop.org, multinymous@gmail.com, hmh@hmh.eng.br List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm-acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt --- Index: linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi.orig/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:06:04.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:20:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ - 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 @@ 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 ------------------------------------ -- -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad