To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] =?UTF-8?Q?toshiba=5Facpi=3A=20Add=20support=20for=20bluet?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?ooth=20toggling=20through=20rfkill=20=28v=36=29?=
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:01:09 -0400
From: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0200, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> This looks very nice, but is the switch really toggling between
> soft and hard blocked only? ;)
> 
> I mean shouldn't there be some unblock signal at some point?

Nope :-)

There is no hardware mechanism to actually turn the bluetooth adapter on;
that's
why driver support has been so important for poor toshiba users; without it
the
adapter is completely useless. On windows, toshiba provide a special
program to
do this as well. It's all very odd.

--phil

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