[arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM,  <fons at 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