iwn(4) doesn't like hardware RF switches

Aragon Gouveia aragon at phat.za.net
Tue Jul 7 03:46:18 UTC 2009


Hi,

Is it just me, or does the iwn driver in -CURRENT not play well with 
hardware RF switches on notebooks?  For me the only resemblence of an 
event I see is when I switch off RF - the kernel sends a log to syslog. 
  wpa_supplicant doesn't pick it up, and neither does devd.  The result 
is that I can't keep wpa_supplicant running and let it reassociate when 
I turn off/on, and neither can I start/stop wpa_supplicant from devd 
when I turn on/off.

I guess I could leave the RF switch on and just bind a key shortcut in 
Xorg to start/stop wpa_supplicant, but a standard approach would be 
nice... :)


Thanks,
Aragon




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