Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm-acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi.orig/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:06:04.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:20:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ - LCD brightness control - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable + - Experimental: WAN enable and disable A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure @@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal +EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan +--------------------------------------- + +This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation +directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE +WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the +experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. + +This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra +Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can +be used: + + echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + +It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other +Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------ -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
