From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: iwl rfkill suddenly dropped to hard block Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:57:18 +0300 Message-ID: <20101216115717.GA15075@ioremap.net> References: <20101215195651.GA18545@ioremap.net> <20101215201126.GG2377@tuxdriver.com> <20101216032247.GA7345@ioremap.net> <4D099444.5040703@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "John W. Linville" , Intel Linux Wireless , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, wey-yi.w.guy-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org To: Larry Finger Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D099444.5040703-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:23:32PM -0600, Larry Finger (Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org) wrote: > >I would imagine this is just related to some dellish crap, but I saw a > >number of exactly the same cases in the web including linux-kernel mail > >lists in the past and also without 'slider on the back' case. > > I doubt that it is Dell related, if that is what "dellish" means. > > I have had some success in clearing this problem by unloading and > reloading the wireless driver. I had the problem on one box that has > no rfkill switch and an 802.11b card that uses b43legacy. I tried that as well as disabling and enabling wifi in bios (or is it newr loader), but without success. I called this 'dellish' crap because of the hell list of problems I had with this laptop and i915 video chipset in it. Apparently brother model e4200 does not have them at all. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html