Christian Lamparter wrote:
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 )
Thanks very much, that covers everything.
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