Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f184.google.com ([209.85.210.184]:48781 "EHLO mail-yx0-f184.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751977AbZGWPQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:16:25 -0400 Received: by yxe14 with SMTP id 14so539584yxe.33 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:16:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A687B85.3070309@lwfinger.net> References: <22f678c60907181747h26bcd4edyae5cc16627c35bdd@mail.gmail.com> <4A687B85.3070309@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:16:25 -0500 Message-ID: <549053140907230816g297b674agfad445057a22dd65@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: howto ignore rfkill switch From: Carl Karsten To: wireless , networkmanager-list@gnome.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Larry Finger wrote: > Helen Gray wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a laptop with a dodgy rfkill switch. It switches on and off >> randomly when touch the laptop panel above it. To avoid the problem, >> I've installed a PCMCIA card 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. -- Carl K