[ltp] Getting ipw3945 kill switch to bring eth1 down?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> Besides using a syslog parser to detect the kill switch line and running
> ifconfig eth1 down, is there a better way to do this?

Yes.  Use thinkpad-acpi 0.18 from ibm-acpi.sf.net, open its input device,
and listen for EV_SW SW_RADIO events.  You could also manually poll the
sysfs attribute it exports with the state of the switch (thinkpad-acpi
doesn't support poll() or select() on its attributes yet).

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  Henrique Holschuh