From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: schwaahed <schwaahed@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN rfkill always Soft blocked
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:22:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366032132.8361.19.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365804259.10342.20.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (sfid-20130413_000245_000077_30E72639)
On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 17:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 20:03 -0400, schwaahed wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an HP Elitebook 8460w laptop containing a Centrino Ultimate-N
> > 6300 AGN (linux-3.8.6 iwlwifi module - firmware version 9.221.4.1
> > build 25532)
>
> I notice that your 'rfkill list all' dumps below don't contain an entry
> for hp-wmi. Is that module loaded on your machine? It's needed at
> least for earlier models of the Elitebook, up at least until the xx40
> series. Perhaps it needs to be updated for your laptop? You might ask
> on the general kernel lists if anyone knows how rfkill is supposed to
> work for the 8460 and if hp-wmi supports it, or if some other mechanism
> is used.
Yeah it seems not loaded, but how then does the soft block affect hard
block? All very odd, but almost certainly a platform rather than a wifi
issue.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 0:03 Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN rfkill always Soft blocked schwaahed
2013-04-12 22:04 ` Dan Williams
2013-04-15 13:22 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2013-04-15 14:39 ` Dan Williams
2013-04-15 15:31 ` Johannes Berg
2013-04-15 15:50 ` schwaahed
2013-04-15 16:34 ` Dan Williams
2013-04-16 1:17 ` schwaahed
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