On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, George Fong <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> <snip> >> >> Dang :-) This was the fix. >> >>> Try editing drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c, and replacing >>> RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_ON and >>> RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_OFF. Looks like rfkill is >>> not part of the compat package, and no work has been done to match >>> compat-wireless to older RFKILLs. >> >> Thank you for such prompt responses. Although I did this for the b43 driver, I >> ended up progressively having to do the same fix for the drivers for a couple >> more, ie iwlwifi and rxt200 >> >> I am not concerned about the rxt200 but the driver I was interested in was the >> iwl4965, so I am not sure that by changing the settings on iwl-rfkill.c I >> have affected the driver I am using .... >> >> >> Having said that... the email is brought to you courtesy of the iwl9645 wifi >> device .. which has got to be a Good Thing ;-) >> >> Agree about the proper way of doing things - should really install a newer >> kernel, but I am strapped into an nVidia graphics card on my laptop and the >> livna drivers keep pace well but I think I risk breaking these at the moment >> with the newer kernel. >> >> Thank you all for your prompt responses and asistance... on a weekend no >> less :-) I'll monitor progress and contribute whatever little I can as I get >> this new laptop settled. > > I've fixed this in compat-wireless, it should now compile fine for > kernels <= 2.6.26. Doh I had used < 2.6.26, I've now added this for <=. This RFKILL stuff will be part of 2.6.27. Committed and pushed, in case you were trying to compile compat-wireless on 2.6.26. New tarball will be generated shortly. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
