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#1 2010-01-22 10:53:56

Krause
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Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

Following the excellent wiki guide, I've installed the rfkill daemon and loaded the rt2860sta kernel driver, so now wifi works largely without issues. However, while rfkill does put the interface down, the light indicator still shows it as active, and the acpi doesn't detect any significant decrease in battery power output. Is there a way to fix this, ie turn wifi off for good without having to reboot and do it in the bios?

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#2 2010-01-22 13:05:51

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

Do you use the acpi-eeepc-generic scripts from AUR? It works great on my 901. Wifi on/off (Fn+F2) works as intended. This is using kernel 2.6.31.6-1 since all later revisions have either broken rt2860sta, broken Intel video or both broken...

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#3 2010-01-22 13:07:29

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

Yeah, I use acpi-eeepc-generic, but I've got the 2.6.32 kernel.

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#4 2010-01-22 16:53:15

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

Apparently, WiFi toggling is handled in the BIOS for more recent BIOS versions. Therefore, you can leave Fn+F2 empty. I did the same for my EEE900, and WiFi toggling works perfectly now.

I use Toofishes' EEE kernel and WICD though, so YMMV.


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#5 2010-01-23 08:05:40

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

In reply to myself: I made a mistake. WiFi toggling is handled by recent BIOS'es, but instead of leaving empty Fn+F2, you should leave empty the COMMANDS_WIFI_TOGGLE parameter in /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf.


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#6 2010-01-23 15:24:26

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

der_joachim wrote:

In reply to myself: I made a mistake. WiFi toggling is handled by recent BIOS'es, but instead of leaving empty Fn+F2, you should leave empty the COMMANDS_WIFI_TOGGLE parameter in /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf.

I did that, wlan0 now no longer shows up on ifconfig when I press Fn+F2, but the light is still on.

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#7 2010-01-24 08:49:07

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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

I do not have rfkill installed at all. Perhaps that is somehow the culprit? Wild guess though...


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#8 2010-01-24 13:18:47

Krause
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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

der_joachim wrote:

I do not have rfkill installed at all. Perhaps that is somehow the culprit? Wild guess though...

I stopped and removed rfkill, same results as before.

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#9 2010-01-26 18:16:55

Krause
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Re: Wifi toggle on the eeePC 901

For the record, this problem solved itself after I switched from network/wicd to networkmanager/nm-applet. hmm

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