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Re: Tablet PC ACPI

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Old 02-22-2008, 12:22 PM
Chris Black
 
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Default Re: Tablet PC ACPI

Emilio Lspez wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm pretty new to OpenBSD, but I've been using Linux for a long time. Now, I'm
>giving a try to OpenBSD but I've found a problem on my HP TC1100 Tablet PC.
>The problem is that I've a ipw2200 wifi card that seems to work with iwi but
>I can't switch radio on because it's done by software. I've tried to change
>it on BIOS, but it's switched to on.
>
>In Linux, it seems to work with a tweak on the ACPI driver, but as I have no
>experience with BSD kernel development I can't try to change it.
>
>Any solution?
>
>

I would look into the ifconfig utility. The man page states that it has
commands to manipulate power management. Perhaps something like
"ifconfig iwi0 -powersave" to turn off power saving.

Chris

PS I believe this type of request is best suited to the misc@openbsd.org
list rather than the tech@ list. tech is a developers list, not tech
support.

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