Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:42:35 -0500 | From | Mario Limonciello <> | Subject | Re: Dell-laptop is not working without wireless |
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Hi Dmitry:
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:10:49PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Admittedly I have not spend much time on it but it looks like my box > _really_ wants wifi interface to be fully operational before > dcsbas_smi_request() starts returning proper data. I wonder if iwl3945's > rfkill support interferes somehow here... > > Maybe Mario (being a Dell guy) has an idea why this might be happening? > > I'm on 2.6.31-rc8 or so. I can't actually reproduce this on a d630. I get all of the rfkill devices populated.
$ rfkill list 0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes $ sudo rmmod iwl3945 iwlcore dell-laptop $ rfkill list $ sudo modprobe dell-laptop $ rfkill list 3: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 4: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes
<hit the hardware killswitch>
$ rfkill list 3: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 4: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no $ sudo modprobe iwl3945 $ rfkill list 3: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 4: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 6: phy1: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
There *is* a problem here that the hardware killswitch status doesn't get updated, but Matthew is aware of that. Make sure you're not getting false data because of it.
-- Mario Limonciello *Dell | Linux Engineering* mario_limonciello@dell.com
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