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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
To: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath9k rfkill behavior
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:27:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907211327.03954.chunkeey@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A65122B.2040500@highlandsun.com>

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 02:56:11 Howard Chu wrote:
> I'm currently running 2.6.31-rc2 and noticed an annoying change in rfkill 
> behavior now; I can no longer toggle the state by echoing 0/1 into 
> sys/class/rfkill/rfkillX/state, it says write operation not permitted. I 
> haven't found any posts online related to this change in behavior, can anyone 
> point me to an explanation/rationale? The only way to change the state now 
> appears to be by using the wifi toggle switch on the laptop.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/10/339

but no need to patch the kernel (again):
the legacy iwconfig tool can let you do the same:

iwconfig wlanX txpower off
and if you want it back:
iwconfig wlanX txpower auto

(or there's a nice utility there: http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=rfkill.git )

Regards,
	Chr

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-21  0:56 ath9k rfkill behavior Howard Chu
2009-07-21 11:27 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2009-07-21 17:21   ` Howard Chu
2009-07-21 21:01   ` Howard Chu

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