Re: ath driver and turning wireless off.

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@dclg.ca>

    David Gilbert said:
    > BTW... this Dell (D800) has the ability to turn the wireless hardware
    > off. For the bluetooth, this is simple: it's like disconnecting a USB
    > dongle. For the mini-pci slot, it appears to power it down. pciconf
    > -lv shows the current (non-supported non-ath) card as present when
    > wireless is "on" and not present when wireless is "off"
    >
    > Is the ath driver able to handle this with any degree of
    > gracefullness?

    I don't believe the keystroke to turn on/off the mini-pci device even
    functions in FreeBSD on my Dell D600. Is there a trick to getting it to
    work? I had thought you needed a software piece to receive that
    keystroke, then do something with it (in which case you could possibly
    unload the kernel module with that stroke, which I think will stop it from
    being powered - but I'm not certain on this).

    Eric

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