On Thursday 18 September 2008 18:49:01 Larry Finger wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > The problem is in the "should". > > > > Maybe something else than b43 (like firmware) changed the radio software > > rfkill bit, and it does not match what mac80211 and userland requested > > anymore. > > > > What you need to pass to rfkill_force_state() is what the radio is currently > > doing. So, the state you need to send to rfkill_force_state has to be based > > on the real state of the hardware's "soft switch bit". > > The hardware does not have such a bit. Once it is initialized and > mac80211 sends it a packet, it will try to send it. That is true even > if the hardware switch is off. It just will not succeed. Right, b43 does have two "bits". One read-only bit that tells the hardware block state. This state can only be changed by physically pressing rfkill button. The other "bit" is a read/write "bit" to turn off the radio in software. If _either_ one bit is blocking the radio, it will be physically blocked. -- Greetings Michael. -- 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
