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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi </font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>Nicolò</small></font>:<br>
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I'm not sure I entirely agree with this patch. I view the BIOS as an
administration tool. An administrator for a company's IT group may
want to disable BT from operating on laptops distributed to and run by
that IT group.<br>
<br>
Also, this call becomes a lot more expensive if you are always writing
the new status to the BIOS whenever it's called. You may notice little
"hiccups" in system usage as an interrupt is called for the SMI call.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm running ubuntu Jaunty, and HAL has 3 switches for wireless
devices. They normally work, but have a problem if the devices are
switched off in the BIOS:
they currently do not enable anything.
In ubuntu the switches are connected to the binary
/usr/sbin/dellWirelessCtl as we can see in the file
tools/linux/hal-system-killswitch-set-power-linux
The binary is called with different arguments depending on the device
(this doesn't have any sense for me)
BT:
--bt 0/1
WLAN:
--sw_wlan 0/1 --wlan 0/1
WWAN
--sw_wwan 0/1 --wwan 0/1
I propose (to make switches work even if the are BIOS disabled) to do
this change:
BT:
--boot --bt 0/1
WLAN:
--boot --wlan 0/1
WWAN
--boot --wwan 0/1
you can see the attached patch
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