Re: RF killswitch (or worse) is enabled after resume from suspend

Re: RF killswitch (or worse) is enabled after resume from suspend

[Daniele C.]

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Subject: Re: RF killswitch (or worse) is enabled after resume from suspend
From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Daniele C. <legolas558@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun Feb 21 2010 06:39:49 GMT+0100 (CET)

> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 01:58 +0800, Daniele C. wrote:
>> I am using kernel 2.6.33-rc7-00064-gac73fdd (latest git of linus'
>> tree) and I have been experiencing an issue for more than a month now.
>>
>> When the computer resumes from suspend (not hibernation), the RF
>> killswitch seems ON (although dmesg does not say this, so it is just a
>> deduction of mine). If I unload ipw2100 and reload it, the killswitch
>> is disabled and wifi can work regularly.
> 
> Can you read the ipw2100 sysfs entry "rf_kill" to confirm the rf kill
> state when this happens? Please also attach your dmesg.
> 
It's always zero.

A recent dmesg is here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25047
sudo lspci -v:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25021

>> Now I am experiencing a worse issue: the 2nd time I do this, reloading
>> the module doesn't work anymore, and neither using my modified version
>> of fsam7400 which did the trick in the past.
>>
>> It appears to be an issue of 2.6.33 kernels. Shall I contact some
>> kernel list? 
> 
> You can include linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org if you want. If you can
> do some git bisect, that would be very helpful to identify the
> regression.
> 
OK, I will go along the git bisect path if possible, but problem is really strange, since only reboots seem to fix it.
Nobody else experiencing issues with ipw2100?

Best regards.
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  Daniele C.

> Thanks,
> -yi  	
> 
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