From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:40:30 +0000 Subject: Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN Message-Id: <20051007164029.GA28157@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <4344521C.8080302@woletz.de> In-Reply-To: <4344521C.8080302@woletz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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