Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:23:13 -0600 (CST) From: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@centtech.com> To: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ath driver and turning wireless off. 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>
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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 -------------------------------------------------------------
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