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author | Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> | 2006-09-22 06:19:16 -0400 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2006-10-14 00:32:24 -0400 |
commit | 28b779d127d3038ff83f42259d135a063b7cd848 (patch) | |
tree | 80b13b61c7184bda4c581595d45d51422e4825fe | |
parent | 24f7ff0af855ece60064a2532d8b316df02983c6 (diff) |
ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature.
Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index 1672590d8efa..00b8cf3999cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | |||
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ detailed description): | |||
33 | - LCD brightness control | 33 | - LCD brightness control |
34 | - Volume control | 34 | - Volume control |
35 | - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable | 35 | - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable |
36 | - Experimental: WAN enable and disable | ||
36 | 37 | ||
37 | A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web | 38 | A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web |
38 | site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure | 39 | site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure |
@@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ with the following command: | |||
601 | 602 | ||
602 | echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal | 603 | echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal |
603 | 604 | ||
605 | EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | ||
606 | --------------------------------------- | ||
607 | |||
608 | This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation | ||
609 | directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE | ||
610 | WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the | ||
611 | experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. | ||
612 | |||
613 | This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra | ||
614 | Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can | ||
615 | be used: | ||
616 | |||
617 | echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | ||
618 | echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | ||
619 | |||
620 | It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other | ||
621 | Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. | ||
604 | 622 | ||
605 | Multiple Commands, Module Parameters | 623 | Multiple Commands, Module Parameters |
606 | ------------------------------------ | 624 | ------------------------------------ |