Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 22:15 +0200, MartinG wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Brian Millett <bmillett gmail com> wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam escrib�
> > > Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch
> > > messages in slightly different form:
> > >
> > > --Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7
> > > Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting
> killswitch
> > > power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
> > > dellWirelessCtl returned 4
> > > Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times
> > >
> > > So now what?
> >
> > The dellWirelessCtl is part of the:
> >
> > # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl
> > libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7
> > package.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow: I get the same kind of message, even though I
> have libsmbios-bin and libsmbios-libs installed (see my previous
> message in this same thread):
> 
> #  rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl
> libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 
Things got much clearer to me when I ran:
dellWirelessCtl -i

I found that most of the functionality of this program is not supported
my BIOS. Maybe a new BIOS is needed. Run this program and see what you
get.
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