Re: How does network manager read rfkill ?

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 07:15 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 02:16 -0400, eye zak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am writing low-level rfkill support in the ath5k driver in
> > compat-wireless-2.6, and I am wondering how network manager knows
> > about my rfkill device ?
> > 
> > Hal recognizes it no problem and broadcasts an event on state change,
> > and tracks the current state. But netowork manager (jaunty-latest)
> > does not notice it.
> 
> NM finds all devices in HAL with the capability 'killswitch', and polls
> them every 6 seconds to find out if any of them return 0 for GetPower.
> If any do, it assumes rfkill.  Are you sure NM is allowed to talk to HAL
> on your distribution?  Some distros like Debian use different D-Bus
> permissions styles, and if those are wrong in
> the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf, NM may not be able to talk
> to HAL and get the killsiwtch state.
> 
> Dan

Or, it currently ignores platform kill switches, like acer-wmi

Regards,
	Maxim Levitsky