Re: how to have rfkill supported by hal?

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:23 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 23:21 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >     
> > > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:34 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> > >       
> > > > > HAL should be fixed to work with ACPI-based laptops.  For now, I'd
> > > > > suggest a small daemon that monitors ACPI events (or, have acpid callout
> > > > > scripts write the status to a file somewhere), and then add a section to
> > > > > the HAL rfkill script to read that file for rfkill status.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >           
> > > > I have acpid installed. 
> > > > I have a script that manually changes /sys/class/net/eth1/device/rf_kill
> > > > what else should I add to the script, to talk to hal rfkill?
> > > >         
> > > I whipped something together in about 30 minutes for ipw2200 and ipw2100
> > > users.  You don't need to add anything to that acpi-triggered script;
> > > you need to do the following using the attachments I've provided
> > > (locations assume Fedora):
> > >
> > > cp 10-ipw-rfkill-switch.fdi /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/
> > > cp hal-system-ipw /usr/libexec/hal-system-ipw
> > > chmod 755 /usr/libexec/hal-system-ipw
> > > cd /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux
> > > patch -p0 < /path/to/hal-system-killswitch-get-power-linux.diff
> > >
> > > Restart HAL, and you're good to go.
> > >
> > > davidz/bastien: comments?  the shellscript could possibly be better of
> > > course.
> > >       
> > If only it was that easy ;)
> >
> > You need to disable your script for Dell laptops, in the fdi, otherwise
> > you end up with 2 levels of rfkill, one at the card level, one at .
> >     
>
> Yeah; can we do ! in .fdi files as yelo_3 asked?
>
>   
that was me who asked ;) I couldn't find anything about it in the spec...