Re: laptop support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 17:28 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> I just wanted to ask if laptop hotkey support is planned. With laptop hotkey support I mean a network manager which is aware of the wireless card status:
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> 1) for hardware-only hotkeys (those hotkeys which don't inform what's going on to the bios)
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> 2) for user-definable hotkeys (such as event based ones like ACPI) which don't do anything by default, and need a function written by someone (in many distribution the file /etc/acpi/wireless.sh)
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> 3) for the meta key defined in input.h (/usr/include/linux/input.h) KEY_WLAN (238)

When the kernel rfkill support goes into both the kernel and HAL, then
NetworkManager will get it.  That's being worked on now.  Right now
there are 10 different ways to do rfkill, and we're just not going to go
down that road :)

Dan

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