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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:11:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100330171139.GA28367@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1269967657.3019.16.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> It could be that hp-wmi doesn't have support for these models yet, or
> that the dv6-1300sb is simply completely different.  But for example, on
> my Elitebook 2530p, there's a softswitch that pokes BIOS, and when BIOS
> is softkilled, the onboard wifi becomes hardkilled.  To unkill, I need
> to unblock BIOS, which then either unblocks wifi, or turns the wifi
> hardkill into a softkill.  Convoluted.

Yeah. I'd be interested in seeing the output of acpidump on this 
machine, but right now it sounds like b43 is behaving correctly - the 
fact that the light is out implies that the bios is killing it.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 20:12 b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-29 23:10 ` Larry Finger
2010-03-30  7:34   ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 16:47     ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 17:11       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-03-30 19:26         ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 19:31           ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:00             ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 20:06               ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:43                 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 11:53             ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 14:51               ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-19 15:00                 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 15:06                   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24  5:42                     ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 15:21                       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 19:56                         ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 20:02                           ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-25 19:50                             ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-25 20:11                               ` Larry Finger
2010-05-01 12:17                                 ` BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) dma & led problems Philippe De Muyter
2010-05-01 16:04                                   ` Gábor Stefanik

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