[ltp] Re: [Ipw2100-devel] Re: [ACPI] ibm-acpi-0.3

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:46:20 +0200


> > Does this means that the button press magically changed
> > the state of the radio in hardware?  I didn't see any
> > processing inside the driver to do that.
> 
> No. The listed radio.sh script just unloads the ipw2100 module from
> memory which effectively disables the wireless network connection.

Exactly. It seems that the wireless adaptor is always on, concerning the
hardware side, just like ethernet. It's the same with the atheros
module.

André.