radio off guarantee?

[Javier Cardona]

Don't have a box with me right now to confirm, but this command
sequence used to turn off the radio:

# killall NetworkManager
# iwpriv eth0 radiooff

Javier

On 9/17/07, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Low priority ... removing the usb8xxx kernel driver is not a
> conventional use case.
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:32:35PM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > I don't see how removing the usb8xxx kernel driver may affect X client
> > connections.  I'd say the two have to be independent.
>
> I agree.  But it happens.  I've reproduced it.  I'll try some later
> builds though.  566 is a bit old now.  Sorry.
>
> > Where do you see this message?
>
> By pressing Control/Alt/F2.  The X server /usr/bin/X has file descriptor
> 2 (stderr) anchored to /dev/tty2, per "ls -l /proc/`pgrep X`/fd" ...
> therefore the second text console contains the message, repeating.
>
> > Check for $XAUTHORITY: it should point to a file containing the xauth
> > cookie.
>
> Got it.  /proc/`pgrep X`/environ contains XAUTHORITY which points to
> /home/olpc/.Xauthority last changed several days ago, which contains a
> hostname of xo-05-27-F1.localdomain, but the current /bin/hostname
> output is "localhost.localdomain" ... so I conjecture that removing the
> wireless kernel driver results in the hostname not being the same as
> what it was before.
>
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Javier Cardona
cozybit Inc.