Helen Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with a dodgy rfkill switch. It switches on and off > randomly when touch the laptop panel above it. To avoid the problem, > I've installed a PCMCIA card but network manager shut it down when the > switch goes off. > > Is there a way to ask network manager to ignore the rfkill switch? What driver is used by the internal card? On my system, I have an internal BCM4311 that uses b43, and I also use several USB cards for testing. Before the latest rewrite of rfkill, I was able to switch off the BCM4311 without affecting the USB sticks. Now I have to unload b43, otherwise all radios are killed. Once b43 is unloaded, the position of the rfkill switch is irrelevant. If you do not wish to use the internal device at all, you should blacklist that driver. Larry -- 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
