Re: wicd

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2011-08-03 15:05:34 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> It would be a very nice feature, but I would be willing to bet money
> it's an order of magnitude more complicated to implement than it should
> be (it's hardware, after all), and the developer hours are probably
> better spent elsewhere, IMHO.

It shouldn't be hard as all the information is in the kernel logs.
For instance:

Jul 24 22:00:11 xvii kernel: [565823.481727] iwlagn 0000:0c:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
Jul 24 22:00:43 xvii kernel: [565858.857570] iwlagn 0000:0c:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio.

Since the kernel knows the status of the radio button, the applications
should be able to know it too.

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