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

[epinull]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
>
> 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,
>
> --
> FA
>
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> E guerra e morte !

You'd lose quite a bit of functionality: Fan control; FSB scaling; camera,
card reader, wifi and bluetooth toggling; maybe more. You'd also lose the
rest of the hotkeys.

Really, I wasn't recommending you remove it. I was just pointing out that
kludge's suggestion wouldn't work in your situation.