Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

From: Carl Karsten <carl personnelware com>
To: wireless <linux-wireless vger kernel org>, networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: howto ignore rfkill switch
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:16:25 -0500

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Larry Finger<Larry Finger lwfinger net> wrote:
> Helen Gray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a laptop with a dodgy rfkill switch. It switches on and off
>> randomly when touch the laptop panel above it. To avoid the problem,
>> I've installed a PCMCIA card

Sounds like it would be good to just disable the switch, right?  From
what I gather, the switch signals the OS, which then runs code to
disable the wifi hardware, so overriding that is very possible.

-- 
Carl K

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