linux-kernel - Re: iwlwifi (4965) regression since 2.6.30

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:07:47 -0700
From:	reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@....muni.cz>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iwlwifi (4965) regression since 2.6.30

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:10 -0700, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, reinette chatre wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:35 -0700, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:07:04PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > > > > 0x0004 = 238  # KEY_WLAN
> > > > 
> > > > This means any rfkill input handler (be it in kernel or userspace) will
> > > > toggle your WLAN cards when fn+f5 is pressed.  You can just assign a
> > > > different keycode to it (use KEY_RESERVED or KEY_UNKNOWN if you don't want
> > > > the key to do anything).
> > > 
> > > Could you give me some hints how to do the mapping?
> > 
> > On my system this key is mapped to 385 (KEY_RADIO) - so that can explain
> 
> And KEY_RADIO is the key to select the radio tuner... heh.  The
> bogosity never ends.  At least it is unlikely that anything would care
> for KEY_RADIO.

On my system this key toggles bluetooth rfkill and does not touch wifi.
I think this is what Lukas wants it to do. I thus hope when he sets his
key mapping to KEY_RADIO he will get the same behavior.

> > >From what I understand you can use input-kbd to change the key mappings.
> > The map file you can provide to it is in same format as the one it
> > prints for you.
> 
> You can also add a HAL fdi file.  I will attach one I found on my
> system, modify to your taste and find out where you should drop it on
> /etc for HAL to use...

Thanks!

Reinette

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