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 02:35 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 
>>> 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
> 
> Humm. Can you try this?
> 
> johannes
> 
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c	2009-07-17 00:19:20.000000000 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c	2009-07-17 01:58:11.000000000 +0200
> @@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ static int acer_rfkill_set(void *data, b
>  {
>  	acpi_status status;
>  	u32 cap = (unsigned long)data;
> -	status = set_u32(!!blocked, cap);
> +	status = set_u32(!blocked, cap);
>  	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	return 0;
> 


Funny how easy the fix was...

Now the rfkill works... ;-)

I can enable/disable it as many times as I want...

So it's:

Tested-by: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>


The difference is that before this patch, bluetooth & wireless were both
disabled at boot...

With this patch the system boots up with bluetooth & wireless is enabled 
by default (But it's not a regression as it now behaves just like 2.6.29 
& 2.6.30 series kernels)