From 28b779d127d3038ff83f42259d135a063b7cd848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Schmidt Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:16 +0200 Subject: ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature. Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Acked-by: Borislav Deianov Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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): - LCD brightness control - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable + - Experimental: WAN enable and disable A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure @@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ with the following command: echo 'level ' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal +EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan +--------------------------------------- + +This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation +directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE +WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the +experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. + +This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra +Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can +be used: + + echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + +It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other +Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b