On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:
Hello all,
A few days ago I installed Arch on an EEE-1000H. Things work very well and I'm sort of impressed by how easy it worked out to be (there were a few hickups but nothing serious).
Today I discovered one possible problem.
The key combination 'Fn + F2' enables or disables the wireless network device. If you hit it accidentally there's no more wifi. Using netcfg (I'm using the version from testing) doesn't bring it back, as the wlan0 device doesn't exist. The solution is hitting again 'Fn + F2', then netcfg the wireless profile.
No big deal for me, but the end users of this machine are less technically inclined. So I'm looking for either
- a way to disable the action of this key combination (while leaving the other F-keys intact), or
- a way to re-enable the wireless device from a script.
The trick mentioned on the EEE-901 wiki
echo 1 > /sys/......./wlan0
doesn't work - there's no such file on the 1000H
Any hints will be appreciated !
Isn't this what rfkill is for? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill