From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:22:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128709367.6166.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4344521C.8080302@woletz.de>
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On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:40 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
The Compaq laptops with Broadcom 430x wireless chipset have a switch as
well, the state of this switch can be checked when the chipset is
enabled (yeah, we're reverse engineering it).
Most likely, something similar happens with this chipset -- but then you
already need a driver that can do that loaded, so ...
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 18:22 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
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 [this message]
2005-10-10 11:40 ` Sergey Vlasov
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