[ltp] Fn + F5 disconnects WLAN

[Roman Haefeli]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 11:49 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:27:10PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:22 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
> > > > on my X200s running Ubuntu 8.10 pressing Fn + F5 to disable
> > > > bluetooth also disconnects WLAN permanently. I thought that only
> > > > bluetooth would be deactivated by pressing Fn + F5.
> > > 
> > > Ubuntu's acpi scripts make Fn+F5 cycle through four modes:
> > > 
> > >   wifi on, bluetooh on
> > >   wifi off, bluetooth on
> > >   wifi on, bluetooth off
> > >   wifi off, bluetooth off
> > > 
> > > (I might have the order wrong.)
> > 
> > this is what i observed as well. is it possible to change the behaviour
> > so, that it only affects bluetooth? since the wlan led doesn't work with
> > 2.6.24, it's hard to tell, in which state the 'radios' currently are.
> 
> Ah.  WLAN LED works for me (kernel 2.6.27-7-generic, iwl3945 version
> 1.2.26ks), but I hear you anyway.

yeah, i tried intrepid once, which ships with 2.6.27, and there the LED
works, but i switched back to hardy, because there is no linux-rt with
smp support in intrepid.
> 
> > having to reconnect wlan, because i wanted to turn off only bluetooth,
> > is very time consuming. i find the four-step solution not very
> > practical.
> 
> I've configured Fn-F6 as the Bluetooth toggle key:
> 
>     # /etc/acpi/events/ibm-bluetooth
>     # This is called when the user presses Fn-F6 button and calls
>     # /etc/acpi/bluetooth.sh for further processing.
> 
>     event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001006
>     action=/etc/acpi/bluetooth.sh
> 
> and
> 
>     #!/bin/bash
>     # /etc/acpi/bluetooth.sh
>     # Enable/disable builtin Bluetooth on IBM Thinkpads
> 
>     if grep -q enabled /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth; then
>         echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
>     else
>         echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
>     fi
> 
> At one point I also had to fiddle with the thinkpad_acpi hotkey mask to
> get Fn-F6 to send an ACPI event, but it doesn't seem to be necessary any
> more in Ubuntu 8.10.

sweet! thanks for sharing.

roman


		
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