[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#581312: acpi-support: Wireless toggling is broken

[Luca Niccoli]

Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.136-3
Severity: normal

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/usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs begins with
IFACE_NAMES=`cut -d: -f1 -s /proc/net/wireless`

and then uses strings in $IFACE_NAMES to know wich interfaces are to be
turned off and on.
But if an interface is rfkilled, it does not appear in /proc/net/wireless
Overall the systems looks overly error prone and complicated; I think it
would be useful if we could drop the support of pre-lenny kernels (and
madwifi too, since it's been RMed).
This should let us move to a rfkill-centric approach, instead of a device
centric one.
I'm willing to do some programming on this, if you're interested.
Cheers,

Luca

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (995, 'unstable'), (991, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii  acpi-fakekey                  0.136-3    tool to generate fake key events
ii  acpi-support-base             0.136-3    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1:2.0.4-1  Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-1    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.5+1      X server utilities

Versions of packages acpi-support recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  radeontool                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  vbetool                       1.1-2      run real-mode video BIOS code to a
pn  xscreensaver | gnome-screensa <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages acpi-support suggests:
ii  rfkill                        0.4-1      tool for enabling and disabling wi
ii  xinput                        1.5.1-1    Runtime configuration and test of 

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/acpi/power.sh changed [not included]

- -- no debconf information

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