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

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:25:51PM -0800, epinull wrote:
> 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.

What would be the consequences of removing that module ?
 
Ciao,

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