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Re: Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN rfkill always Soft blocked

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On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 17:04 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 20:03 -0400, schwaahed wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have an HP Elitebook 8460w laptop containing a Centrino Ultimate-N
> > 6300 AGN (linux-3.8.6 iwlwifi module -  firmware version 9.221.4.1
> > build 25532)
> 
> I notice that your 'rfkill list all' dumps below don't contain an entry
> for hp-wmi.  Is that module loaded on your machine?  It's needed at
> least for earlier models of the Elitebook, up at least until the xx40
> series.  Perhaps it needs to be updated for your laptop?  You might ask
> on the general kernel lists if anyone knows how rfkill is supposed to
> work for the 8460 and if hp-wmi supports it, or if some other mechanism
> is used.

Yeah it seems not loaded, but how then does the soft block affect hard
block? All very odd, but almost certainly a platform rather than a wifi
issue. 

johannes

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