Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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.

greg k-h


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions,
and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl
_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list  http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel