Re: howto ignore rfkill switch



On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:16 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> 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.

Depends on the machine. On some machines the switch just sends a signal
to software; on others it physically turns off the wireless. In the
latter case (including my laptop), there's nothing you can do, since
it's all in hardware...

Simon.

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