<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Bastien: This information (about the ability to switch via software interface) isn't necessarily reported by the BIOS.  I'm adding on Michael Brown.  Michael, libsmbios can't reliably report this information can it? Why was the hal killswitch interface mucking with a hardware switch's settings in the first place? Regards Bastien Nocera wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1224789083.2895.16.camel@cookie.hadess.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:03 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi: I've been trying to track down why on some machines the hardware BT switch suddenly stops working periodically and then figured out what's actually happening. HAL is turning it off every time. Well unfortunately, on a lot of Dell platforms, the software switch simply doesn't work. This is a BIOS limitation on those platforms. What happens then is somehow this kill switch interface gets triggered, turns off the hardware switch, and suddenly the user has no way to turn bluetooth back on. I feel the better solution is to only turn off via the software switch. If the platform ends up supporting it, it will work, if not, nothing happens. I'm attaching a patch to adjust this behavior, but I'm open to constructive criticism. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> How about fixing libsmbios' dellWirelessCtl to not do stupid things? Cheers </pre> </blockquote> <div class="moz-signature">-- <title></title> Mario Limonciello Dell | Linux Engineering <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mario_limonciello@dell.com">mario_limonciello@dell.com</a> </div> </body> </html>