On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Use the rfkill utility from core. It will display the rfkill devices and > modify their state. As James said, using the sysfs interface is > depreacted and it will disappear soon. (/me reads rfkill.c) Rfkill depends on the sysfs interface at least for reading names. The rest is indeed done via /dev/rfkill. > If you want to avoid deactivating your wireless by accident, I guess you > need to modify the settings of the ACPI module like mentioned in the > other subthread. Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it just can't be disabled. -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !