From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Fabio Coatti <fabio.coatti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mjg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: iwlagn rfkill and 2.6.31 on Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:25:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916132549.GA10634@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909161521.15710.fabio.coatti@gmail.com>
Is the hp-wmi module loaded?
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm experiencing a bad behaviour of rfkill / iwlang driver. Here the
> description:
>
> Kernels: 2.6.30.[5,6] 2.6.31
> Hardware: HP EliteBook 6930p
>
> Behaviour: once a working wireless is killed activating the rfkill button,
> there is no way to turn off the rfkill and riactivate wifi network. Even a
> reboot is not able to reset the situation; to get again the control of rfkill
> button is to reboot under windows xp and activate wifi. After that I can boot
> inder linux with wifi active and kill it with rfkill button and the loop
> starts again :)
> I'm pretty sure that this issue is present since some kernel before the one
> I've reported, but I'm not sure about the versions.
>
> I don't know if this is iwlagn or acpi related bug (or my fault), I'm
> available for any test.
>
> HW:
> Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network
> Connection
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1211
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
> Memory at d0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
> Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
> Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-21-6b-ff-ff-74-2b-28
> Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
> Kernel modules: iwlagn
>
> Let me know if more information are needed.
>
> Thanks for any answer (I'm not subscribed to this list, so please CC me on
> answers, thanks)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 13:21 iwlagn rfkill and 2.6.31 on Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN Fabio Coatti
2009-09-16 13:25 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-09-16 14:57 ` Fabio Coatti
2009-09-16 16:30 ` reinette chatre
2009-09-16 22:05 ` Fabio Coatti
2009-09-16 23:15 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-09-17 9:16 ` Fabio Coatti
2009-09-17 12:39 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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