acpi-support and wireless

Nicolò Chieffo 84yelo3 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 00:10:32 BST 2006


This might be a good idea. This "framework" should be introduced in
the kernel, simply by giving to all wireless drivers the same
structure and additional parameters to configure it, for instance a
common radio_kill feature! (anyway I'm not sure if the kernel can
remember the card status after a reboot)
I dind't know about the new led class, this seems great. Another great
step in my opinion would be syncing the led with the radio_kill
status...

Anyway some work must be done in userspace level because now I think
that more or less every GUI is not aware of leds and radio status. I
think GUIs must be connected to this new kernel featurs to give a
complete system usability

The power management stuff also concerns gnome-power-manager: "prefer
power savings over performance" should definitely interact with the
wireless card too (e.g. switch it off if not used)

can we discuss in the wiki page? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WirelessFramework



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