dell bluetooth switch not completely supported

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: hal

In my new laptop latitude E6400 there are 2 dell bluetooth switches: one is the runtime switch, and the other is the boot switch. I can control both of them using the dellWirelessCtl utility.

the runtime switch can be modified running
sudo dellWirelessCtl --bt [0/1]
the boot switch can be modified (along with the runtime switch) running
sudo dellWirelessCtl --boot --bt [0/1]

The HAL switch (which I can use through the bluetooth applet) only controls the runtime switch, so what happens is that if I use the applet and the boot switch is "0", bluetooth will not be enabled.

HAL should use the --boot option when changing switches

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: hal 0.5.12~rc1+git20090204-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

This should fix the bug (Also for wwan and wlan) and makes the kill persistent to reboots

[Aaron Wang Shi (aarons-wang)]

I think we should do it like this:

 if [ "$value" = "true" ]; then
     hal-system-smbios --boot --bt 1
     hal-system-smbios --bt 1
     ret=$?
 else
     hal-system-smbios --bt 0
     hal-system-smbios --boot --bt 0
     ret=$?
 fi
 if [ "$ret" != "0" ]; then
     echo "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported" >&2
     echo "hal-system-smbios returned $ret" >&2
     exit 1
 fi

if I just use

hal-system-smbios --boot --bt 1 to turn on
hal-system-smbios --boot --bt 0 to turn off

the bluetooth led on my dell e6400 won't on/off, so we should turn on/off both the runtime switch and hardware switch

[dino99 (9d9)]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/