From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:54056 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751381AbXKJPZq (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:25:46 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Output message at startup if hardware switch for radio is off Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:24:50 +0100 Cc: John Linville , Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <4734e389.AF3t4zZIQw1IryOf%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4734e389.AF3t4zZIQw1IryOf%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200711101624.50808.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20071110_152552_366446_95455463) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 09 November 2007 23:47:37 Larry Finger wrote: > Now that the radio is controlled by rfkill, there is a potential > difficulty in helping a new user get started, as it is unlikely > that they will have setup rfkill. This patch prints a message if > the interface is started with the hardware switch off. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger > --- > > John, > > This patch is intended for the everything branch of wireless-2.6. > > Larry Well... Pressing the rfkill button is the _FIRST_ thing that I would do, if the device does not work. I'm wondering why people have a problem with that. On other operating systems it's the very same. On Windows there is no dmesg. -- Greetings Michael.