On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 13:00 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > I havent had a lot of time to pursue it, but I have seen several people > working on things to handle killswitches. The problem I've seen is that > several of them dont take into account features that the Dell notebooks > have: software configurable killswitches, and killswitch for cellular in > particular. Why do we need to configure a killswitch? Surely a kill switch is just something that kills _all_ wireless for aircraft. If you want to power down individual devices surely this should be done in sysfs. > > > Recent Dell laptops all have a wireless switch. This switch can be > > > configured at runtime by dellWirelessCtl (part of libsmbios-bin) to > > > individually turn on/off any combination of each of the above. > > > > We could hook this up to HAL (although I'm not sure yet how) but I'm > > guessing the most sane thing to do would be to tie it to a hardware > > killswitch that killed all the wireless devices for aircraft scenario. > > I wrote dellWirelessCtl. There was a patch a while back that integrated > it into HAL, but I didnt write that. Sure, unless this stuff just works, very few people are going to use it. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
