From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, furlot@free.fr
Subject: Re: Compaq laptop RFKILL problems
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:50:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C97682.6010109@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080911120002.GA1387@srcf.ucam.org>
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:22:09PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I'm trying to help a Ubuntu user get his BCM4303 working on a Compaq
>> Presario R3215. His radio is hardware disabled, but the RFKILL switch
>> does not issue a scancode when pushed. Obviously, the Windows software
>> polls that key in some manner, but we have no idea what it does.
>
> Can you try the hp-wmi driver?
Trying to build hp-wmi for his 2.6.24.3 kernel wouldn't be worth the
effort; however, Ubuntu has a kernel based on 2.6.27-rc6 that was
accepted yesterday. It will be tried ASAP.
Thanks,
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 17:22 Compaq laptop RFKILL problems Larry Finger
2008-09-11 12:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-09-11 19:50 ` Larry Finger [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=48C97682.6010109@lwfinger.net \
--to=larry.finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=furlot@free.fr \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mjg59@srcf.ucam.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).