From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: Hardware button support for Wireless cards Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 21:32:47 +0200 Message-ID: <200605152132.47883.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200605151801.06379.mb@bu3sch.de> <1147720370.3067.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:58605 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751597AbWEOTdp (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 15:33:45 -0400 To: Dan Williams , Jason Lunz , netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1147720370.3067.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday 15 May 2006 21:12, you wrote: > > There are registers on the bcm43xx chip (0x158 and 0x49A) that indicate > > some "Radio is hardware-disabled" state. We currently don't use that flag > > correctly in the driver. Could you please assist me on testing if your switch > > actually toggles the bit? > > I think best place for this would be on irc.freenode.net #bcm-users > > When those bits get set in the register, is the radio already disabled? > ie, for the bcm43xx chip, is it really force-disabled by the button, or > does the driver have some control? Hm, actually, We don't know what the bit means. Could be some completely different meaning. That is what I am trying to find out. But it seems to have something to do with the power control of the chip.