From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758802AbZHRMK4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:10:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758766AbZHRMKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:10:55 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:49838 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750979AbZHRMKy (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:10:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:10:49 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Dell-laptop is not working without wireless Message-ID: <20090818121049.GB22284@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20090818060340.E1C7A526EA5@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090818060340.E1C7A526EA5@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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