[ltp] Re: T60: Wireless switch key

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have a question about the wireless switch key of the T60: It's possible 
>> to read the status of this key over an ACPI-file? I've searched extensively 
>> under /proc/acpi/ibm but without luck.

> It is possible, but ibm-acpi/thinkpad-acpi doesn't support it without a
> patch, yet.

> Look at the ibm-acpi-devel mailinglist archives (or was it this mailinglist
> archives?  better look both, sorry about that) for a patch.

An alternative is to grep for the relevant latest log messages in
/var/log/syslog.  I personally wish that there was some ACPI event (or
similar) associated with the switch, so that I could start/stop the
wpa_supplicant daemon with that switch.


        Stefan