Comment 59 for bug 53310

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TomasHnyk (sup) wrote :

By the way, echo 1 > $KILL causes this to appear in the syslog:
Mar 20 19:38:36 bill NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
and echo 0 > $KILL shows this:
Mar 20 19:38:42 bill NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch
that corresponds to
Mar 20 19:51:16 bill kernel: [17180125.980000] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
that I normally get upon resume.

However, when I try to suspend and resume,
echo 1 > $KILL
no longer worgs,
cat $KILL
gives 2 and unless I manually press the hardware button, it cannot be changed through echoing - once I press the button, I can change $KILL by echoing egain.