[ltp] Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p)

[Johannes Boy]

Not that I can see. Seems to be the same when booting switched on and
when booting switched off.

On 9/20/06, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Johannes Boy wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I'm playing around with my new z61p right now and I was wondering how
> > to get this wireless switch to work (I guess it turns off the wireless
> > radio(s) on a hardware basis)
> > What I found out so far is:
> > ibm_acpi sends an event for it: received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY
> > 00000080 00007000"
> > (I entered the event in the "special key" section of the wiki).
> > So it would be easy to include an acpi action script to start/stop
> > daemons & services using this event key, however:
> > The same event is sent on turning it on and when turning it off, so
> > telling which way it was turned isn't possible by just looking at the
> > event.
> > Also, I couldnt find any hardware-based information about this script in
> > - /proc/acpi/*
> > - lshal
> > - lspci
> >
> > Sooo... does anyone have any information about how to get the status
> > of this switch?
>
> Does dmesg say anything helpful?
>
> >
> > Teilzeitstudent
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