From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dell-laptop is not working without wireless
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:10:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090818121049.GB22284@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090818060340.E1C7A526EA5@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> dell-laptop module does not work on my Latitude d630 unless driver for
> my wireless card (which happens to be iwl3945) is already loaded.
> Otherwise dcsbas_smi_request() returns all zeroes which causes
> dell-laptop to not create any rfkill devices nor install backlight
> device:
That's quite bizarre. I'd had one report of the backlight setup failing,
but hadn't connected it with wireless driver loading. Long shot, but I
don't suppose you can figure out which bit of the wifi config is needed
to get dell-laptop working by just bailing at various bits of the probe
and seeing if you get sensible answers?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-18 5:32 Dell-laptop is not working without wireless Dmitry Torokhov
2009-08-18 12:10 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-09-03 14:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-09-03 16:42 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-09-03 17:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-09-03 17:20 ` Mario Limonciello
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