Andrew Joakimsen said the following on 11/29/2008 02:37 AM:

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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How can I get that button to turn the wifi on and off?

It would help if you stated which laptop you have and which wireless card it is. I have two machines both with Intel 2200 WiFi with various versions of openSUSE. One HP machine has a seperate switch with an LED and it works fine (except for the LED some times turns off or just blinks) another is a Dell where the "switch" is a keypress of Fn+F2 and that works fine and the "WiFi" LED works perfectly.

I don't see what the wireless card has to do with it? And I did state that it was a button and not a keypress. Other buttons on the front panel such as the speaker volume up, down and mute buttons, as well as the numlock and capslock keys not only work - carry out their function - but show up under XEV. Whether the mapping of their events to functions is done by the system/kernel, X or KDE I don't know. Perhaps its not the same in all the cases. The wireless button which like the power button, had backing LED, doesn't show up under XEV. I haven't tried finding out if the power button show up under XEV :-) I don't intent to try :-) since I may not be able to observe the result. As I said,

I have /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 with STARTMODE='manual' which I thought means I have to manually enable the wifi.

Am I wrong in assuming that? The Wifi turn off and on manually OK with the Network Manager. -- The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kai Ponte wrote:

Wireless seems to be the bastard stepchild of Linux. Were I a better C programmer with actual time, I'd work on it.

Correction, bastard stepchild period, :-) I have as much grief over time with WiFi on Doze as with Linux. There are some standards but most of the hardware manufactures tend to be a little creative in extending and interpreting them for consumer level products. Point the finger at the real culprits.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk2X3MACgkQasN0sSnLmgKXAQCdGMGA3V2BrIj8Wm6Du4exkNsY 6/4AniZ9XzYLvNackOPB1Xe3+gmTjivB =JJXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M. wrote:

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 01:26:54 pm Kai Ponte wrote:

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Wireless seems to be the bastard stepchild of Linux. Were I a better C programmer with actual time, I'd work on it.

If that would be only programming.

First you have to find out what hardware is doing, but that is often violation of license terms, so organizing work is not only technical problem.

Actually, I'm more talking about the interfaces used in the desktop managers such as gnome/kde. The wireless works okay for me (at least Intel does) but the wifi interface in KDE (and gnome) is lacking. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org