On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > A few days ago I installed Arch on an EEE-1000H. Things > work very well and I'm sort of impressed by how easy it > worked out to be (there were a few hickups but nothing > serious). > > Today I discovered one possible problem. > > The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the > wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's > no more wifi. Using netcfg (I'm using the version from > testing) doesn't bring it back, as the wlan0 device doesn't > exist. The solution is hitting again 'Fn + F2', then netcfg > the wireless profile. > > No big deal for me, but the end users of this machine are > less technically inclined. So I'm looking for either > > - a way to disable the action of this key combination > (while leaving the other F-keys intact), or > > - a way to re-enable the wireless device from a script. > > The trick mentioned on the EEE-901 wiki > > echo 1 > /sys/......./wlan0 > > doesn't work - there's no such file on the 1000H > > Any hints will be appreciated ! Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill
