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Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Sounds like it would be good to just disable the switch, right?  From
what I gather, the switch signals the OS, which then runs code to
disable the wifi hardware, so overriding that is very possible.


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Carl K
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