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I don't have video/audio working on this install, so I'll try to get that set up later and make a video. I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https:

I don't have video/audio working on this install, so I'll try to get that set up later and make a video. I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/wifi.mp4 https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/wifi.mp4 I reached out to them a couple of times, and they asked if I had rfkill installed, I told them no, but it shouldn't matter if it was a hardware switch. They told me that they would look into it, and then never responded after that.

kardos 7y ago
Interesting indeed! Here [1] is how it allegedly works. Is the laptop easy enough to open and check if the board you have looks anything like those photos? On the other hand, putting a signal onto disable pins is not exactly a kill switch. The description sounds like a hardware switch in front of a soft kill, which would make it some sort of quasi-HKS. A real kill switch would need to totally cut power to that controller rather than rely on it playing nice. On the gripping hand, I find it hard to believe they would overlook something that crucial. Eg, if it didn't work, it would /have/ to show up during testing. I wonder if the chip needs to be tightly integrated into the board and a proper HKS would require cutting signal to dozens of those pins -- something that is perhaps impractical -- so they went for a lesser option. FWIW, there is at least one more person alleging the same broken functionality [2] [1] https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/ https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/ [2] https://forums.puri.sm/t/wifi-killswitch-didnt-work-when-i-needed-it-to/4140 https://forums.puri.sm/t/wifi-killswitch-didnt-work-when-i-n...