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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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John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
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  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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