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
Ah, not quite. I want the bluetooth off and the wifi on; if I hit the toggle
switch which turns them both off, iwconfig is unable to turn the wifi back on,
and there is no other command which turns off only the bluetooth.
The above patch works fine, thanks again.
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