2009/7/18 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Linux can also do enabling "by software". At the moment, you need to >> download and compile a utility to poke /dev/rfkill. I wouldn't bother >> testing it, because I didn't change that bit :-). > > Utility is here > http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=rfkill.git > And a patch to restore write access to /sys/class/rfkill/*/state file is here > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/10/339 Great tool. Block bluetooth: root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill block 3 root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill unblock 3 root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Block wireless: root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill block 0 root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill unblock 0 root@gumis:/home/maciek/zrodelka/rfkill/rfkill# ./rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Works very nice on my laptop Thanks! -- Maciej Rutecki http://www.maciek.unixy.pl -- 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
