[ltp] Re: thinkpad-acpi (T6x/R6x/X6x): requesting testers for wireless switch behaviour

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 8 May 2008 17:49:00 -0300


On Thu, 08 May 2008, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:42:17 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > I believe this hardware slider switch is only present on R6x/T6x/X6x,
> > but if your X300, Z6x or R5x has one, I'd like to hear from you as well.
> 
> My Z61m has this hardware slider too, but I do not have WWAN or BT,
> only Intel 3945 WLAN. Should I still answer your questions or is my
> result not interesting?

If thinkpad-acpi sees the switch, and you get the radio_sw attribute in
sysfs (using a very recent thinkpad-acpi), then all is OK with your
laptop and no further info is needed.

Intel WLAN usually directly responds to the rfkill switch, so I don't
have to care about it (it just works :p ).

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  Henrique Holschuh