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

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, kludge <drkludge at rat-patrol.org> wrote:

> > Well, since I don't have /etc/acpi at all it looks like this
> > switch works without any soft support at all. So I guess it
> > just can't be disabled.
>
> unless you install acpid and acpi-eeepc-generic.  acpid puts acpi
> event-handling in userspace, so then you can /dev/null fn+f2.
> acpi-eeepc-generic provides all the expected functionality and very
> straight-forward bash-script configuration for acpid.
>
> make like the sneaker adverts!
>
> -kludge
>
>
AFAIK, that won't work because the wifi hotkey is handled by
the eee-laptop kernel module. Or, at least it is on my 1005HA.
I don't believe there is a way to stop the module from processing
certain hotkeys, other than removing it altogether.