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Bug#538389: ITP: rfkill -- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices



On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:59:20PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>

> * Package name    : rfkill
>   Version         : 0.1-4-g9429740
>   Upstream Authors: Johannes Berg, Marcel Holtmann, Tim Gardner
> * URL             : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill
> * Licence         : BSD-style single-clause
>   Programming lang: C
>   Description     : tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

>  rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device interface,
>  which is used to enable and disable wireless networking devices, typically
>  WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband.
>  .
>  rfkill uses /dev/rfkill, which is present in Linux kernel 2.6.31 and later.

> I'm choosing a git snapshot over 0.1 because it contains some functionality
> which will be of use in eeepc-acpi-scripts.

It's been proposed already to integrate this tool into the wireless-tools
package; you may want to check with the maintainer of said package (and
upstream) to sort out where this is best integrated.

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