Daniel: The actual switching is happening in the BIOS when you press the key. The BIOS spits out the keycode and dell-laptop says "OK sure, lets change our internal status now" So that would explain how the information works reverted. Dell-laptop also has support to send the toggle itself, but it needs to know the starting status to accurately do that.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 17:51, Daniel Cardin <daniel.car...@gmail.com>wrote: > Mario: What is different if I boot with the switch off then ? How does > nm-applet and the rest make it work ? What's different? > another way to put it, how was it working in hal in jaunty prior to v4 IIRC > ? > > There has to be something... Otherwise I wouldn't be online at the > moment through nm-applet :) > > -- > [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling > kill switch > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430809 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- Mario Limonciello supe...@gmail.com Sent from Austin, Texas, United States -- [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs