On Tuesday 21 July 2009 02:56:11 Howard Chu wrote: > I'm currently running 2.6.31-rc2 and noticed an annoying change in rfkill > behavior now; I can no longer toggle the state by echoing 0/1 into > sys/class/rfkill/rfkillX/state, it says write operation not permitted. I > haven't found any posts online related to this change in behavior, can anyone > point me to an explanation/rationale? The only way to change the state now > appears to be by using the wifi toggle switch on the laptop. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/10/339 but no need to patch the kernel (again): the legacy iwconfig tool can let you do the same: iwconfig wlanX txpower off and if you want it back: iwconfig wlanX txpower auto (or there's a nice utility there: http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=rfkill.git ) Regards, Chr -- 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
