From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcus Woletz Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:05:38 +0000 Subject: Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN Message-Id: <43469CD2.2030603@woletz.de> 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 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. I really don't know how the button is detected by Linux (if I knew that I wouldn't waste your time here ;-) It must be any mechanism in Linux so that hotplug can generate an event to load the firmware when the WLAN interface is switched on the first time. Now I want use this mechanism to generate "on" and "off" events to do an ifup/ifdown. Because I don't know how the kernel generates events and sends it to the hotplug dispatcher and because it seems that really no events are generated beside the "firmware load" event when switching on/off the interface I need your help. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > bye Marcus ------------------------------------------------------- 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