Bluetooth, wireless switch

[Ante Karamatić]

Binary package hint: acpi-support

When I press Fn+F8 on my Toshiba U200, bluetooth gets enabled. So far, so good. Another Fn+F8 gets bluetooth disabled, but it also disables wireless card. This is anoying, cause once I enable bluetooth, I can't disable it again without disabling wireless connection. This laptop has two switches - hardware switch for wireless and keyboard (software switch) for bluetooth (and/or wireless).

Looking at /etc/acpi/tosh-wireless.sh, I see:

toggleAllWirelessStates;

which could be done better. Doing it like this disables wifi if it is working or enables it if it isn't working. After that, we have:

if isAnyWirelessPoweredOn; then
        toshset -bluetooth on
else
        toshset -bluetooth off
fi

this makes impossible to have enabled wireless and disabled bluetooth. For this type of laptop, having only this in /etc/acpi/thosh-wireless.sh:

#!/bin/bash

if `toshset -bluetooth | grep -q off`; then
        toshset -bluetooth on
else
        toshset -bluetooth off
fi

would save the day. But, since some toshiba laptops don't have hardware switch for wifi, this would be better:

#!/bin/bash

. /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs

if isAnyWirelessPoweredOn; then
        if `toshset -bluetooth | grep -q attached`; then
                toshset -bluetooth off
                toggleAllWirelessStates
        else
                toshset -bluetooth on
        fi
else
        toggleAllWirelessStates
fi

This way, we would have 3 options: wifi only, wifi and bluetooth and none.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

BTW, there isn't toggleWirelessStates function in /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs, which is called in /etc/acpi/wireless.sh. There is toggleAllWirelessStates :)

And yes, this bug is valid for Feisty and Gutsy.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

Fixed in Gutsy. Thanks.