Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:10:49 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Dell-laptop is not working without wireless |
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> dell-laptop module does not work on my Latitude d630 unless driver for > my wireless card (which happens to be iwl3945) is already loaded. > Otherwise dcsbas_smi_request() returns all zeroes which causes > dell-laptop to not create any rfkill devices nor install backlight > device:
That's quite bizarre. I'd had one report of the backlight setup failing, but hadn't connected it with wireless driver loading. Long shot, but I don't suppose you can figure out which bit of the wifi config is needed to get dell-laptop working by just bailing at various bits of the probe and seeing if you get sensible answers?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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