rfkill/rfkill.8

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   2 .TH RFKILL 8 "July 10, 2009"
   3 .SH NAME
   4 rfkill \- tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
   5 .SH SYNOPSIS
   6 .B rfkill
   7 .RI [ options ] " command"
   8 .SH OPTIONS
   9 .TP
  10 .B \-\-version
  11 Show the version of rfkill.
  12 .SH COMMANDS
  13 .TP
  14 .B help
  15 Show rfkill's built-in help text.
  16 .TP
  17 .B event
  18 Listen for rfkill events and display them on stdout.
  19 .TP
  20 .B list [type]
  21 List the current state of all available rfkill-using devices,
  22 or just all of the given type.
  23 .TP
  24 .BI block " index|type"
  25 Disable the device corresponding to the given index.
  26 \fItype\fR is one of "all", "wifi", "wlan", "bluetooth", "uwb",
  27 "ultrawideband", "wimax", "wwan", "gps", "fm" or "nfc".
  28 .TP
  29 .BI unblock " index|type"
  30 Enable the device corresponding to the given index. If the device is
  31 hard-blocked, e.g. via a hardware switch, it will remain unavailable though
  32 it is now soft-unblocked.
  33 .SH AUTHORS
  34 rfkill was originally written by Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
  35 and Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>.
  36 .PP
  37 This manual page was written by Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>,
  38 for the Debian project (and may be used by others).