Actually, I do this on my laptop which, for some reason, configures my wifi to be off on startup. I also find my laptop's backlight-dimming feature annoying, so I disable that on startup as well. Under Arch, all one needs to do is add some code to /etc/rc.local. A simple echo to the file will suffice. Here is how mine works:<br>
<br>echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/asus_laptop/ls_switch<br>echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/asus_laptop/wlan<br><br>Yes, this is platform specific, but I suspect that most modern systems have something under the "platform" directory for whatever hardware they have.<br>
<br>-Colin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Steve Romanow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slestak989@gmail.com">slestak989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 12/23/2009 12:05 PM, Michael Mol wrote:<br>
><br>
> Very interesting. That suggests it may be fairly trivial to write an<br>
> app that enumerates sysfs and presents a tree of devices with<br>
> "enable/disable" options. The next piece would be how best to have<br>
> that enabling and disabling persistent across reboot cycles.<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>/etc/defaults?<br>
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