Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
To: lizard <lizard furcon de>
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:10:12 +0100

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 14:53 +0200, lizard wrote:
> hows about adding a option to enable/disable WWAN, same like the feature
> to en/disable wireless (gnomeapplet: right-click > checkbox)
> 
> on my lenovo-notebook it is quite simple to do it
> 
> to enable: echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
> to disable: echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
> to get status: cat /proc/acpi/ibm/wan

There's already killswitch support in NetworkManager, just make sure
that the method for accessing those is supported in HAL.

Not sure how that's going to be handled in the post-HAL world, Dan?

Cheers

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- idea: WWAN enable/disable
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