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From: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
To: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT] hp-wmi: improved rfkill support for wifi
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:15:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8db1092f0907190115l6c55df77o47ae40c20b04c2a6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71cd59b00907181437l6ef362ejc345818a5197a6c4@mail.gmail.com>

2009/7/18 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>:
>> Linux can also do enabling "by software".  At the moment, you need to
>> download and compile a utility to poke /dev/rfkill.  I wouldn't bother
>> testing it, because I didn't change that bit :-).
>
> Utility is here
> http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=rfkill.git
> And a patch to restore write access to /sys/class/rfkill/*/state file is here
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/10/339

Great tool.

Block bluetooth:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill block 3
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill unblock 3
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
5: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

Block wireless:
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill block 0
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
5: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill unblock 0
root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
5: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
	
Works very nice on my laptop

Thanks!
-- 
Maciej Rutecki
http://www.maciek.unixy.pl

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-19  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18 16:55 Alan Jenkins
2009-07-18 17:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-18 18:55 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-07-18 20:46   ` Alan Jenkins
2009-07-18 21:37     ` Corentin Chary
2009-07-19  8:15       ` Maciej Rutecki [this message]
2009-07-19  7:28     ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-07-19 17:21       ` Alan Jenkins
2009-07-19 18:10         ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-07-19 18:24           ` Alan Jenkins
2009-07-19 19:08             ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-07-20 17:10               ` Alan Jenkins
2009-07-20 19:54                 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-07-20 20:08                   ` Alan Jenkins
2009-07-19 18:25           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-19 19:08             ` Maciej Rutecki

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