From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com
Subject: Re: iwl rfkill suddenly dropped to hard block
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:57:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101216115717.GA15075@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D099444.5040703@lwfinger.net>
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:23:32PM -0600, Larry Finger (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) wrote:
> >I would imagine this is just related to some dellish crap, but I saw a
> >number of exactly the same cases in the web including linux-kernel mail
> >lists in the past and also without 'slider on the back' case.
>
> I doubt that it is Dell related, if that is what "dellish" means.
>
> I have had some success in clearing this problem by unloading and
> reloading the wireless driver. I had the problem on one box that has
> no rfkill switch and an 802.11b card that uses b43legacy.
I tried that as well as disabling and enabling wifi in bios (or is it
newr loader), but without success. I called this 'dellish' crap
because of the hell list of problems I had with this laptop and i915
video chipset in it. Apparently brother model e4200 does not have them
at all.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20101215195651.GA18545@ioremap.net>
2010-12-15 20:11 ` iwl rfkill suddenly dropped to hard block John W. Linville
2010-12-15 20:28 ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2010-12-16 3:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-12-16 4:23 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-16 11:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2010-12-16 14:40 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-12-16 14:42 ` John W. Linville
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