On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:59 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> This button works to the extent that when I use it to turn off the wireless,
> it indeed turns it off, and even my wpa_supplicant ends up terminating.
>
> But it doesn't work to bring up the interface: hitting the button just
> enables the interface, but does not cause it to get configured. So I'd like
> to bind something like the command "ifup eth2" to this button. I need this
> binding to work whether I'm in X or not. I've found `funkey' which seems
> to be able to do that, but it also seems to be too old for my kernel.
>
> Another alternative would be to arrange for the ipw3925 driver to cause
> hotplug events that udev or ifplugd understands, so it would work
> "transparently".
Hi Stefan,
Ditto for my HP Compaq nx6320. I find that when I disable the wifi the
daemon exits and (possibly) the module is unloaded.
When I re-enable the wifi I need to "modprobe ipw3945" which also
manages to restart the daemon (there must be some special magic there
somewhere, but I haven't investigated much further.
At that point network-manager seems to pick up on things and crank up my
wireless network fine.
It's possible that there is an ACPI event that happens, and I might
investigate that further. If there is then adding something
to /etc/acpi/events is probably the best way to go.
Do you see any acpi events at all? I've made some small changes to my
system to log all acpi events, like:
==================== /etc/acpi/events/allevents ===
# /etc/acpi/events/allevents
# This is called when any ACPI event happens
# /etc/acpi/log_event is called to log the event
# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
# specified.
event=.*
action=/etc/acpi/log_event "%e"
===================================================
and:
==================== /etc/acpi/events/log_event ===
#!/bin/sh
logger -t 'acpi-allevents' "Received ACPI event =>$1<="
===================================================
So that I can see every ACPI event in syslog.
Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.
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