Re: Killswitch Patch

[Roberto Scelzo <robertoscelzo yahoo it>]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:14 +0200, Roberto Scelzo wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 22:51 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: 
> > > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:13 -0400, Benjamin Kreuter wrote:
> > > > Hi all --
> > > > 
> > > > This patch adds support for HAL's new killswitch functionality.  It is 
> > > > somewhat rudimentary and needs a bit of work (little things, nothing major), 
> > > > but I do not have the hardware to test the functionality.  Can somebody test 
> > > > this?
> > > > 
> > > > HAL should support killswitchs on Dell and VAIO laptops.
> > > 
> > > Only Dells support the WLAN killswitch, the VAIOs only support
> > > Bluetooth.
> > 
> > I'm on a dell 500m and I do have noticed rfswitch/killswitch messages
> > into my logs, but only when I was on ubuntu dapper, now that I'm on 
> > Feisty I am no longer able to see that on syslog... an I don't know
> > if it's a kernel or hal related thing.
> 
> I have no idea what messages you mean.
> 
> Cheers
> 
that's what I used to see in my syslog when I was on dapper whenever
I turned wifi on/off:

Mar 22 20:09:26 localhost kernel: [17193667.860000] atkbd.c: Unknown key
pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).
Mar 22 20:09:26 localhost kernel: [17193667.860000] atkbd.c: Use
'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.
Mar 22 20:09:27 localhost kernel: [17193668.968000] eth1: Radio is
disabled by RF switch.



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