From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:05:47 +0000 Subject: Re: Notebook Hardware Key for Wireless LAN Message-Id: 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 10/7/05, Greg KH wrote: > 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. > It might be accessible through ACPI with a vendor-specific module. Have you asked on acpi list? Although I don't recall seeing any samsung-specific modules... -- Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------- 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