Nit picky stuf

[Ian Malone]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I have a HP Pavilion DV4000 Laptop running FC4.  It works wonderfully 
> well.  That stated, there are a few little nit picky things that bug me. 
>  Some of the buttons on it don't work the way they do with that "other" 
> OS.  There is a "Wireless" button that disables the wireless function 
> that I would like to work.  I am an astronomer and when I'm out in the 
> field I would like to disable wireless to save the battery.  I'm not 
> sure if "ifconfig eth1 down" actually turns off the wireless 
> transmitter.  I know that pushing this button under the "other" OS does 
> turn it off.  Any opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.  Is 
> there a way to link a command to this button?
> 

I don't know about the button, but the command you're looking for is
/sbin/iwconfig
(man iwconfig, look for power)

It sounds like the button may be acpid related, man acpid might be a
start point, but I've never done enough with it to know.  (The other
possibility is hal, <http://hal.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal>)

The card should be able to power off: I think this is a requirement
for RF devices in many regions.

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imalone