On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Hin-Tak Leung<hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Herton Ronaldo > Krzesinski<herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This change implements rfkill support for RTL8187B and RTL8187L devices, >> using new cfg80211 rfkill API. >> >> Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Tested-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Neat! > > I ran a ping to the router while flicking the switch on and off, and > have 'ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable' in the middle. dmesg also > shows It appears that I wrote prematurely - flicking the switch with the patch seems to just do the equivalent of ifconfig down. (before the patch, the switch has no effect). However, NetworkManager soon notices the interface going down and ifup it again. So I have simply got a 30s to 1 minute disruption in connectivity. Is this intentional? I thought it is supposed to actually switch off the hardware, or is this how the code supposed to work? Maybe some component needs to let NM knows not to reenanble the device. Hin-Tak -- 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
