Re: acpi_ibm(4): new radio kill switch (readonly) sysctl
Sam Leffler <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | Errno Consulting |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Rong-en Fan wrote: > As pointed out by Henrik Brix Andersen, I adds a sysctl entry > that shows the status of radio kill switch found on some ThinkPad: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/acpi_ibm_killswitch.diff > > dev.acpi_ibm.0.killswitch = 0 means the switch is off. It seems that > no acpi event will be generated when the value changes (actually, > my x60 does not generate any events when I presses FN+something). > Otherwise, we can hook it in devd.conf and remove wireless driver when > kill switch is on... > > Any comments? If the radio is Atheros-based the kill switch likely generates a GPIO interrupt that the ath driver can catch and use to turn the radio on/off. Sam _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"