Re: Wi-Fi Question

["John W. Linville" <linville redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:49:35PM -0400, Martin Dubuc wrote:
> This is a very nice tool. Unfortunately, on my system running Fedora 11, I
> get the following erro:
> Can't open RFKILL control device: No such file or directory
> 
> Using strace, I discovered that rfkill is trying to open path /dev/rfkill,
> but this path does not exist on my system. Instead, it should try to open
> path /sys/class/rfkill.

No, it shouldn't -- not the same thing.

As Peter Jones pointed-out, you need a newer kernel for that tool to work.

Hth...

John
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