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

[Rainer Rehak]

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Hi all,
i have a X60 with Ubuntu 8.04:

> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
 >> In order to add rfkill support to thinkpad-acpi, and have it=20
work really
 >> well, I need to know how the BLUETOOTH and WWAN switches (those
 >> reported/modified by /proc/acpi/ibm/wan and=20
/proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth)
 >> behave IN RELATION TO the *hardware* slider radio switch (not=20
the fn+f5
 >> hotkey).
>> I believe turning WWAN and bluetooth off through the thinkpad firmware=

>> actually unplugs them from the USB bus.  If that's true, it should be =
a
>> really simple matter to know if it is working or not, as they will sho=
w
>> up and disappear from lsusb output (run lsusb as root)...

I am not sure, if this helps you, but first: i don't have a=20
bluetooth hardware switch, which means i turn it on and off via=20
Fn+F5, which adds or removed the bluetooth device from/to the usb bus.
$ dmesg
[ 3243.316435] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and=20
address 3
[ 3243.491129] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3243.566481] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
[ 3243.568402] usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb

Second, i use the madwifi-ng drivers with the norfkill option for my=20
wireless. This disables the hardware switch (got it? =3D)).

Greetings
Rainer

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