On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 01:09 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Nope. > Nothing gets logged when I press the rfkill... > > I'd say that the rfkill rewrite killed my wireless :-( > > Bluetooth works at it whould, but not the wireless > > But now I have atleast found one way to get it working... > > I've built the rfkill utility, and with it I can get the wireless working... Thanks for the analysis! > Here is the output when wireless works: > [root@tmb-laptop rfkill]# ./rfkill list > 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > 2: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no Makes sense that it works at this point :) > Pressing the rfkill button gets me this: > [root@tmb-laptop rfkill]# ./rfkill list > 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > 2: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: yes So far so good. Your platform's soft-switch is wired to the card's hard kill line. Mind trying ./rfkill unblock 0 (or whatever ID the acer-wireless has) at this point to see what happens? I would hope it goes back to the working state. > And pressing it again gets this: > [root@tmb-laptop rfkill]# ./rfkill list > 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: no > 1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > 2: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: yes > Hard blocked: no > > And after that I cant get wireless back until I again do a: > ./rfkill unblock 2 > (works only when acer-wireless is no/no and Wireless LAN is yes/no) Right. This is bad. The button press shouldn't have affected the soft-state of the rfkill #2. > Applying this patch: > [PATCH] rfkill: fix rfkill_set_states() to set the hw state > sent by Alan Jenkins does not help this issue either... > > Any suggestions how to fix the rfkill ? I'll poke at the acer code to see what it's doing wrong... johannes
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