Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:30 +0200, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Simon Geard <delgarde ihug co nz>
> wrote:
>         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.
>         
> 
> Well, actually in the case of the OP, the switch has nothing to do
> with the PCMCIA card, and the card is still on, available and
> configurable by hand (iwconfig, ifconfig) when the switch is off. It
> is just NM that decides to disable all wireless possibility even if
> the switch concerns only the internal card.

You've flipped the rfkill switch, thus you do not want to use wifi.  If
you do actually want to use wifi, there are other, better mechanisms to
just kill the card you don't want to use.  rfkill is *not* the mechanism
to disable a specific card completely.

Dan


> A partial solution was found by using connman (from intel AFAIK) which
> seems to ignore the switch completely. 
> 
> -- 
> Cedric Pradalier
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