Re: idea: WWAN enable/disable

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:28 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> starting with 2.6.31 we do have a proper /dev/rfkill interface that can
> do all this properly without having to involve HAL, udev or similar.

Goodie, will have to move gnome-bluetooth to using that scheme.

Do you have any references to the API/ioctls for it?

Cheers