From: Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath9k rfkill behavior
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:21:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A65F901.7030803@highlandsun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907211327.03954.chunkeey@web.de>
Christian Lamparter wrote:
> 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 )
Thanks very much, that covers everything.
--
-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 17:21 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
2009-07-21 17:21 ` Howard Chu [this message]
2009-07-21 21:01 ` Howard Chu
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