From: rlwkayaker <rlwkayaker@charter.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Howto remove rfkill from kernel
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:03:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130619200356.741ec084@compuzoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371682734.1051.0.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:58:54 -0500
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 13:36 -0400, rlwkayaker wrote:
> > The rfkill "feature" has rendered the internal wireless of my
> > Averatec 3260 laptop unusable. It works fine with earlier
> > kernels without this "feature". How do I remove the rfkill
> > "feature" from a custom built kernel?
>
> Best thing to do is figure out why this is happening, and fix
> it. What kernels worked? What kernels fail? What wifi card
> do you have, and was it the card the laptop originally came
> with?
>
> Dan
>
I have been using 2.6.32-5-686 successfully with Debian
Squeeze. Earlier kernels native to Debian Lenny and Etch also
worked well. I tried to update to Debian Wheezy which uses
3.2.0.4 and ran into many problems, including the rfkill
"feature". I gave up on Wheezy and I tried Gentoo, with it's
3.? kernel and the same rfkill problem, among others. I am
currently using 3.7.10-antiX which works very well in this
laptop, except for rfkill "feature". rfkill has a hard block on
the wireless. The internal card is original and uses the
rt2500pci module. I can, and do, temporarily, use a PCMCIA
wireless card in that laptop successfully and rfkill doesn't
interfere. I don't find this to be a good solution. I would
rather go back to the internal card without the PCMCIA appendage
protruding from the side of the machine.
I have spent a lot of time trying various "fixes" identified on
the Internet. I'm left with building a kernel without rfkill,
using the PCMCIA card or scrapping my favorite laptop because
somebody decided to put this "feature" in the kernel with
inadequate information.
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 17:36 Howto remove rfkill from kernel rlwkayaker
2013-06-19 18:38 ` John W. Linville
2013-06-19 22:58 ` Dan Williams
2013-06-20 0:03 ` rlwkayaker [this message]
2013-06-20 0:09 ` Jason Cooper
2013-06-20 0:21 ` rlwkayaker
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