Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 03:07 +0200, MartinG wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net> wrote:
> > Things got much clearer to me when I ran:
> > dellWirelessCtl -i
> 
> Aha!
> This is what I get on my Dell Latitude X1 (using the ipw2200 driver):
> 
> # dellWirelessCtl -i
> Libsmbios version      : 0.13.10
> dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0
> Wireless Info not supported on this system.
> 
> Wireless Switch Configuration not available on this system.
> 
> BIOS Boot-time settings (new interface):
>         Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         WiFi_Locator_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         WiFi_Locator_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Cellular_Radio_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Cellular_Radio_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Bluetooth_Devices_Enable: 0
>         Bluetooth_Devices_Disable: 1
>         Wireless_LAN_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
>         Wireless_LAN_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED)
> 
> BIOS Boot-time settings (old interface):
>         Radio_Transmission_Enable: 1
>         Radio_Transmission_Disable: 0
>         Wireless_Device_Disable: 0
>         Wireless_Device_App_Control: 0
>         Wireless_Device_App_Or_Hotkey_Control: 1
> 
> 
> 
> So I guess NetworkManager should check for this, and stop spitting out
> all this messages.

Ideally, the HAL device for a killswitch wouldn't _exist_ in HAL if it
wasn't supported.

Dan

> best regards,
> MartinG
> 
> PS: I run a really old A02 BIOS on my X1, as the newer versions will
> lock the laptop at 600MHz after half an hour usage (normal is 1.1
> GHz). I have contacted Dell about that problem, and given extensive
> debugging data, but got no response back.
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