Hardware control wireless switch on Thinkpad with Madwifi drivers

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 07/12/2007, Debian Abuser <agent.one at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello everyone:
>
>  Since I upgraded to Fedora 8 I notice battery life of my ThinkPad T61
> strongly reduced. Even with the 9-cell battery I rarely go over 4,5hrs of
> life compared to 7+ hrs before; Naturally, I started "hunting" for the cause
> of this. What I discovered is that the wireless is permanently on,
> regardless if the hardware switch on the front of the laptop is ON or OFF.
> Strangely enough, the Bluetooth is responsive to flipping the switch.
>

At least you still have your wireless device 802.11x recognised by
lspci. Mine has completely gone missing but bluetooth is responsive (
recognised as a USB device ) to the laptop's "wireless switch" which
is in front of the laptop. Not sure why this is yet and am running F7.

Both bluetooth and 802.11g are Broadcom devices.


John