Re: unable to bring up iwlagn wireless after update from 2.6.29.6 to 2.6.31-rc3

[Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>]

Johannes Berg skrev:
> On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 01:09 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 
>> Nope.
>> Nothing gets logged when I press the rfkill...
>>
>> I'd say that the rfkill rewrite killed my wireless :-(
>>
>> Bluetooth works at it whould, but not the wireless
>>
>> But now I have atleast found one way to get it working...
>>
>> I've built the rfkill utility, and with it I can get the wireless working...
> 
> Thanks for the analysis!
> 
>> Here is the output when wireless works:
>> [root@tmb-laptop rfkill]# ./rfkill list
>> 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
>> 	Soft blocked: no
>> 	Hard blocked: no
>> 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
>> 	Soft blocked: yes
>> 	Hard blocked: no
>> 2: phy0: Wireless LAN
>> 	Soft blocked: no
>> 	Hard blocked: no
> 
> Makes sense that it works at this point :)
> 
>> Pressing the rfkill button gets me this:
>> [root@tmb-laptop rfkill]# ./rfkill list
>> 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
>> 	Soft blocked: yes
>> 	Hard blocked: no
>> 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
>> 	Soft blocked: yes
>> 	Hard blocked: no
>> 2: phy0: Wireless LAN
>> 	Soft blocked: no
>> 	Hard blocked: yes
> 
> So far so good. Your platform's soft-switch is wired to the card's hard
> kill line. Mind trying
> 
> 	./rfkill unblock 0
> 
> (or whatever ID the acer-wireless has) at this point to see what
> happens? I would hope it goes back to the working state.
> 

Nothing happends...

It does not change anything on either acer-wireless or phy0

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Thomas