From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware button support for Wireless cards
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:42:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200605152342.20115.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060515194614.GB25683@knob.reflex>
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On Monday 15 May 2006 21:46, Jason Lunz wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:12:50PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I assume it disables the radio without any help from the driver, because
> it definitely turns off my radio, but the bcm43xx driver i'm using (in
> 2.6.17-rc4) currently doesn't pay any attention to those registers
> afaik.
Correct, my laptop with an integrated BCM43xx chip works this was as well.
I can use the button to enable and disable the device (led is switching on and off)
without a bcm43xx driver installed. Hardware detection just picks it up when
I enable the device with the button as new device. So the hardware button works
directly with the hardware.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 12:57 Hardware button support for Wireless cards Mark Wallis
2006-05-15 13:25 ` Jiri Benc
2006-05-15 13:59 ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-05-15 14:06 ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-15 14:37 ` Dan Williams
2006-05-15 15:12 ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-05-15 16:20 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-05-16 3:10 ` Mark Wallis
2006-05-25 15:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] " Ivo van Doorn
2006-05-15 16:19 ` David Zeuthen
2006-05-15 15:27 ` Jason Lunz
2006-05-15 16:01 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-15 19:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-05-15 19:32 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-15 19:46 ` Jason Lunz
2006-05-15 21:42 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2006-05-15 20:08 ` John W. Linville
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