Re: [PATCH] Sony laptop: Some Sony Vaia laptops do not enable wwan power by default.

Matthew Garrett
2009-04-22T20:11:30Z

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:07:14PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:

> The laptop model that doesn't power up wwan on cold boot contains a
> "Sony Programmable IO Control Driver" ("VGN-" according to the DMI
> info). It appears that only laptops with a "Sony Notebook Control
> Driver" enjoy rfkill goodness. I don't know for sure if those models
> fail to power up wwan when rfkill is disabled.

Right. It'd need porting to the rfkill infrastructure, rather than just
being a sysfs attribute.

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