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YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

Wireless on/off, a diffirent way

My notebook comes with a fancy wireless on/off system in such way that I can't use rf_kill. So I decided to approach it from a different way. This script will let you load or unload the wireless network module. It is a 'modified version' of this one (thank you).

#!/bin/bash
# this is the script /usr/bin/wireless-oo

STATE=$(cat /etc/wireless-oo/status)

if [ "$STATE" == 1 ]
then
    modprobe -r ipw2100
        echo 0 > /etc/wireless-oo/status
else
    modprobe ipw2100
        echo 1 > /etc/wireless-oo/status
fi

exit 0

Then I used visudo to give normal users control over it, and made a link in de taskbar. Instand on and off, with just one mouse click .

There's just one thing, is the wireless device radio also off when you unprobe the module? Because then I can safe some energy with this script too.

Last edited by YscO (2008-02-26 22:14:03)