From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 13:23:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805DC16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E442243D3F for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from webmail.centtech.com (otter3.centtech.com [10.177.173.12]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id hBVLND6T039607; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:23:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from 10.177.173.77 (SquirrelMail authenticated user anderson) by otter.centtech.com with HTTP; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:23:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <1821.10.177.173.77.1072905793.squirrel@otter.centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <16371.15032.415568.367500@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16371.15032.415568.367500@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:23:13 -0600 (CST) From: "Eric Anderson" To: "David Gilbert" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath driver and turning wireless off. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:23:17 -0000 David Gilbert said: > BTW... this Dell (D800) has the ability to turn the wireless hardware > off. For the bluetooth, this is simple: it's like disconnecting a USB > dongle. For the mini-pci slot, it appears to power it down. pciconf > -lv shows the current (non-supported non-ath) card as present when > wireless is "on" and not present when wireless is "off" > > Is the ath driver able to handle this with any degree of > gracefullness? I don't believe the keystroke to turn on/off the mini-pci device even functions in FreeBSD on my Dell D600. Is there a trick to getting it to work? I had thought you needed a software piece to receive that keystroke, then do something with it (in which case you could possibly unload the kernel module with that stroke, which I think will stop it from being powered - but I'm not certain on this). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention -------------------------------------------------------------