Andrew Joakimsen said the following on 11/29/2008 02:37 AM:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:20, Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> wrote:
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