Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #305324, revision 14 Title: Netcontrol does not set up WLAN when kill switch activated - openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) + reject date: 2010-11-15 10:49:57 + reject reason: Not done in time for openSUSE 11.2 Priority Requester: Desirable Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski (mtomaschewski) Developer: (Novell) Description: Provide udev rule to activate / deactivate WLAN interface based on killswitch event --- On my Lenovo ThinkPad T60p, the WLAN hardware kill switch doesn't work as expected. I am _NOT_ using NetworkManager, but the traditional ifup method. The problem seems to be, that the wlan interface is not properly brought up/down when I use the kill switch. --- This wont be fixed for 11.0, because there are different types of killswitch events for different drivers. And it works with NetworkManager. But for 11.1 we should be able to handle it more easily. There will be unified killswitch events. What we need is a additional udev rule that calls ifup for that event. Relations: - Netcontrol does not set up WLAN when kill switch activated (novell/bugzilla/id: 383309) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383309 Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-06-18 23:52:42) Is not the kill switch handled directly in the kernel? #2: Vladimir Botka (vbotka) (2009-09-08 21:38:00) In the case of the Thinkpad T60 the killswitch is handled by the acpid. This even is sent via HAL to the d-bus. The corresponding application should act on this event. AFACT neither Network Manger nor ifup/ifdown act to this event. The signal the HAL sends to the d-bus is from *acpi_rfkill_tpacpi_bluetooth_* . I can see that the bluetooth device is switching on/off on this signal. #3: Marius Tomaschewski (mtomaschewski) (2009-10-02 08:55:32) (reply to #2) Netcontrol alias ifup does not listen to any d-bus events. A udev event is required. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305324