Hi Didier, list, Didier Kryn writes:
> Le 07/02/2021 à 16:27, Hendrik Boom a écrit: >> I've had boot-to-boot persistence of a different setting -- for my wifi >> device. Ony it wasn't the device with the memory, it was the BIOS. The >> effect was very similar, though. >> >> When I entered an area where wifi was forbidden I turned off my laptop's >> wifi using my OS's tool for doing so. >> >> The next time I turned on my laptop I couldn't turn it on again with >> that tool. >> >> It turned out that my OS had turned off the wifi by changing a >> BIOS-level setting, and when I turned it on the bios told the OS there >> was no such device when it tried to turn it on again. >> >> Frustrating until I figured out I had to use the BIOS to turn it on >> again. > > On my "Elitebook" (and on my previous "Latitude") there is (was) a hard > button to toggle the wifi on/off. Same thing on my Libreboot T400 (refurbished Lenovo T400). Real nice to have a physical kill switch if you want to turn of WiFi in a hurry. > I'm surprised manufacturers hide this functionality in a BIOS menu. Doing so via a BIOS menu is a bit cumbersome to say the least. Perhaps the `rfkill` package can help if you don't have a physical kill switch. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
