Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN

[Marcus Woletz <marcus@woletz.de>]

Hi Greg,

Greg KH schrieb:
[...]
>>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.

But the hotplug system is definitly calling the hotplug firmware agent
when the WLAN interface is turned on the first time. And there are some
firmware events generated. So I think that the hotplug system sees that
the interface is switched on. The only problem is that these events are
generated only one time and there's no event when switching off WLAN.

> 
> 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
> 

I don't give up so fast :-)

bye
Marcus



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