Rfkill Query Tool

[waterhead]

Poking around the LinuxWireless.org website, I found a newly developed app for checking rfkill.

rfkill - Linux Wireless

I installed it on my Ubuntu 9.04 system, with an Atheros AR242x wireless (ath5k). The short list of command options are these:

Usage:	rfkill [options] command
Options:
	--version	show version (0.3-1-gc089737)
Commands:
	help
	event
	list
	block {<idx>,all,wifi,bluetooth,uwb,wimax,wwan,gps}
	unblock {<idx>,all,wifi,bluetooth,uwb,wimax,wwan,gps}

When I run any of the commands, I always get the same error:

$ rfkill list
Can't open RFKILL control device: No such file or directory

Checking my list of loaded modules, I don't see an rfkill module, so this may be the reason for the error.

If anyone else would like to try this out, you can give your results. It may be a handy little tool. Here's the installation method that I used (Ubuntu).

1) Install GIT

sudo apt-get install git

2) Pull from the GIT repository.

git clone http://git.sipsolutions.net/rfkill.git/

3) Move to the newly created rfkill folder, and build/install it.

cd rfkill

make

sudo make install

[reed9]

Nice. I'll have to check this out.