ath card with two antennas and rfkill question

[Markus Dolze]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Markus Dolze wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently got a Compex WLM54G mini-pci card for my Toshiba 6100. I
>> connected the two internal antennas the laptop has and the card if
>> working fine, except that the laptop's "wireless switch" does not
>> work. I cannot turn the radio off (better this than the other way
>> round). I remember having read that this switch is connected to one of
>> the mini-pci pins and signals the card to turn off the radio. Why
>> doesn't it work then? Or is it a software / driver issue?
>>   
> 
> rfkill is handled several different ways and there is no automatic way
> for the driver to arrange handling (e.g. by reading the eeprom).  If 
> the switch is delivering a gpio interrupt then the current driver
> doesn't support that.  What you need to do is identify the gpio
> pin+polarity and then add a handler to ath_intr to turn the radio
> on+off.  If you want to pursue that contact me off-line for help (none
> of my laptops have this setup).
> 

I give up on this. I installed Windows XP and tested with some Atheros'
driver as well as with the one Toshiba supplies and none worked. The RF
stays always on and the "wireless on/off hotkey" on the keyboard doesn't
work either. So don't expect this to work on FreeBSD.

Regards
Markus