ath driver and turning wireless off.

[Sam Leffler]

On Wednesday 31 December 2003 01:08 pm, David Gilbert wrote:
> BTW... this Dell (D800) has the ability to turn the wireless hardware
> off.  For the bluetooth, this is simple: it's like disconnecting a USB
> dongle.  For the mini-pci slot, it appears to power it down.  pciconf
> -lv shows the current (non-supported non-ath) card as present when
> wireless is "on" and not present when wireless is "off"
>
> Is the ath driver able to handle this with any degree of
> gracefullness?

If you mark the interface down the radio should be turned off.  I can't tell 
if you're asking for a hookup to a button on the laptop.  Some Atheros-based 
cards have an rfkill input via a gpio pin that's hooked to a switch on the 
laptop (e.g. IBM T40*).  This mechanism isn't yet in the ath driver but 
should be there soon (someone is testing the changes and they'll be rolled in 
once we know they work).

	Sam