From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:11:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330171139.GA28367@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269967657.3019.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> It could be that hp-wmi doesn't have support for these models yet, or
> that the dv6-1300sb is simply completely different. But for example, on
> my Elitebook 2530p, there's a softswitch that pokes BIOS, and when BIOS
> is softkilled, the onboard wifi becomes hardkilled. To unkill, I need
> to unblock BIOS, which then either unblocks wifi, or turns the wifi
> hardkill into a softkill. Convoluted.
Yeah. I'd be interested in seeing the output of acpidump on this
machine, but right now it sounds like b43 is behaving correctly - the
fact that the light is out implies that the bios is killing it.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 20:12 b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-29 23:10 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-30 7:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 16:47 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 17:11 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-03-30 19:26 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 19:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:00 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 20:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:43 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 11:53 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 14:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-19 15:00 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 15:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 5:42 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 15:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 19:56 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 20:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-25 19:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-25 20:11 ` Larry Finger
2010-05-01 12:17 ` BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) dma & led problems Philippe De Muyter
2010-05-01 16:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
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