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Re: [PATCH] sony-laptop: support rfkill via ACPI interfaces

 

On Saturday 21 March 2009 20:33:22 Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Being a notorious KDE hater, I don't even know what knetworkmanager is.
> I simply wrapped the wlan change into a script which shuts down and
> restarts network. That works perfectly.
>
> But I have another question: What are the relationships between the
> rfkill states and /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/wwanpower and
> .../bluetoothpower? Will writing 0 into wwanpower have the same effect
> as writing 0 into the corresponding rfkill file?

wwanpower operates the legacy sony-pic interface instead of the new-style ACPI 
interface. That has never worked on the Z series (not for us, at least).



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