Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.

[Brian Millett <bmillett gmail com>]

Aaron Konstam escrib�
> I sometimes think I understand the killswitch problem with NM but
> obviously I don't. What is the implication of the following lines
> from /var/log/messages in F7? NM works for me but these messages make me
> think I am missing something.
> 
> Sep 19 08:03:38 cyrus NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch
> power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type
> not supported
> Sep 19 08:04:14 cyrus last message repeated 6 times

What is happening is the /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl is what is being called and it
needs the dcdbas module to be loaded.  Since it is not, then the message.

Look here for libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7:

http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/

[bpm]$ rpm -ql libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7
/usr/bin/assetTag
/usr/bin/dellBiosUpdate
/usr/bin/dellLcdBrightness
/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl
/usr/bin/getSystemId
/usr/bin/propertyTag
/usr/bin/serviceTag
/usr/bin/tokenCtl
/usr/bin/verifySmiPassword
/usr/bin/wakeupCtl
/usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6
/usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/COPYING-OSL
/usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/README
/usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/getopts_LICENSE.txt

I've added:

modprobe dcdbas

to /etc/rc.local so it gets loaded at boot.

Then the messages not only go away, but toggling the wireless kill switch works.
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