From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ralph Benzinger <t1@endlos.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, malattia@linux.it,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with hardware radio kill switch on Sony Vaio notebook
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:06:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100329170604.GC4984@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100329152721.GC6445@endlos.net>
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:27:21PM +0200, Ralph Benzinger wrote:
> My Sony Vaio VPC-Y11S1E notebook has an Atheros AR9285 chip, which is
> supported just fine by ath9k. The notebook also has a physical radio
> kill switch at the front that can be slid into one of two positions.
> Alas, the rfkill tool shows wlan0 as "hard blocked: yes" for either
> switch position. Consequently, txpower is off, and wireless
> networking cannot be activated.
>
> Could you kindly indicate which part of the kernel would be
> responsible for handling the radio kill switches -- cfg80211, ath9k,
> sony-laptop, ...? Are there any known fixes or workarounds? I'm
> using Kubuntu 9.10 with their stock kernel 2.6.31 and the wireless
> backports modules right now, but tests with Kubuntu 10.4 Beta and
> 2.6.32 failed as well.
Generally, sony-laptop would be responsible for correctly reporting
the rfkill switch state.
Hth!
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 15:27 Problems with hardware radio kill switch on Sony Vaio notebook Ralph Benzinger
2010-03-29 17:06 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-03-29 17:41 ` Ralph Benzinger
2010-03-29 22:37 ` Mattia Dongili
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