Thread: [Ndiswrapper-general] radio on/off control
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From: William D W. <wil...@be...> - 2004-03-30 14:51:25
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Hi all, I have 0.6+CVS running fine on my Thinkpad R40 Centrino/Intel Pro 2100 RH 9 + 2.4.25 + cpufreq combination. Builds and installs as expected (with just a few quirks in documentation like ./utils/ missing from a path or two). I haven't done extensive testing, but have seen no issues when hooking up with a Linksys WRT54G. Since my laptop is usually on a wired net I have eth0 configured with ONBOOT=yes and wlan0 with ONBOOT=no, and fire up wifi with ifdown eth0, ifup wlan0. No problem. However, the RH network startup|restart script loads ndiswrapper when it sees ifcfg-wlan0 even if ONBOOT=no to preserve the order of device and driver association (I guess). This turns on the radio even though it isn't going to be used. I can add something to rc.local to unload the driver (or hack the end of the network script) if necessary, but what I really would prefer is to just turn off the radio and leave the driver installed. "/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 txpower off" is happy, but doesn't seem to do anything. The Fn-F5 combo does not toggle the radion on|off when running linux. I guess I should have just shortened this to "how do I turn the radio off and on?" Thanks Pontus, Giridhar, and the rest for a really sweet piece of work! Bill -- --------------------------------------- William D Waddington Bainbridge Island, WA, USA wil...@be... --------------------------------------- |