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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html