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