Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Yeeloong wireless issue dissected

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 07:53:54PM +0800, wu zhangjin wrote:
> Hi, Robert
> 
> Could you please compile rtl8187b into the kernel(2.6.30.9), not just
> as a module.
> 
> Just checked it, if as module, Fn+F5 will not work, but the interface
> /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state works! This means the relative kernel
> handling is "broken"(not really broken). but if you really want to use
> rtl8187b as a module, try to ensure this program start as a daemon, it
> will accept the event of Fn+F5 and switch the status of the wireless
> automatically:
>
> [...]
> >
> > $ echo 1 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state
> >
> > and
> >
> > $ echo 0 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state
> >
> > It may help to enable/disable the wireless~~
> >
> > if you want to enable it when booting, add the first line into
> > /etc/rc.local or something else which is executed when booting.

So the problem with wireless is that it wasn't enabled?  So why not enable
it by default then?

> and of course, you are recommended to use 2.6.31.5 directly, rtl8187b
> works as a module or not with it very well~~

Ok.  Is this branch v2.6.31 or linux-loongson/2.6.31/stable?

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