On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:58:54 -0500 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 13:36 -0400, rlwkayaker wrote: > > The rfkill "feature" has rendered the internal wireless of my > > Averatec 3260 laptop unusable. It works fine with earlier > > kernels without this "feature". How do I remove the rfkill > > "feature" from a custom built kernel? > > Best thing to do is figure out why this is happening, and fix > it. What kernels worked? What kernels fail? What wifi card > do you have, and was it the card the laptop originally came > with? > > Dan > I have been using 2.6.32-5-686 successfully with Debian Squeeze. Earlier kernels native to Debian Lenny and Etch also worked well. I tried to update to Debian Wheezy which uses 3.2.0.4 and ran into many problems, including the rfkill "feature". I gave up on Wheezy and I tried Gentoo, with it's 3.? kernel and the same rfkill problem, among others. I am currently using 3.7.10-antiX which works very well in this laptop, except for rfkill "feature". rfkill has a hard block on the wireless. The internal card is original and uses the rt2500pci module. I can, and do, temporarily, use a PCMCIA wireless card in that laptop successfully and rfkill doesn't interfere. I don't find this to be a good solution. I would rather go back to the internal card without the PCMCIA appendage protruding from the side of the machine. I have spent a lot of time trying various "fixes" identified on the Internet. I'm left with building a kernel without rfkill, using the PCMCIA card or scrapping my favorite laptop because somebody decided to put this "feature" in the kernel with inadequate information. Richard -- 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
