On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:40:54AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > .... > > > I have the switch on this laptop in position to disable the wireless > > > device (iwn(4)). Is there some way wpa_supplicant (or something) might > > > be able to recognize that this is a pointless exercise? > > > > Well iwn could bring device down when radio is turned off and > > bring it up when radio is turned on ??? > > Well, that should actually be the case. I don't see how it might differ > between stable/8 and head. > > Can you post the output of > wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d > while the RF kill button is in disabled state? > > > > I don't recall stable/8 doing this, though I could be wrong. Next time I booted stable/8, I checked /var/log/messages, and verified that wpa_supplicant is also persistent in that environment. So I did the above within script(1); I've attached a copy of the typescript file. This was done while running: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #20 r214672: Tue Nov 2 04:19:13 PDT 2010 Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.Received on Tue Nov 02 2010 - 14:53:12 UTC
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