On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:27:21PM +0200, Ralph Benzinger wrote: > My Sony Vaio VPC-Y11S1E notebook has an Atheros AR9285 chip, which is > supported just fine by ath9k. The notebook also has a physical radio > kill switch at the front that can be slid into one of two positions. > Alas, the rfkill tool shows wlan0 as "hard blocked: yes" for either > switch position. Consequently, txpower is off, and wireless > networking cannot be activated. > > Could you kindly indicate which part of the kernel would be > responsible for handling the radio kill switches -- cfg80211, ath9k, > sony-laptop, ...? Are there any known fixes or workarounds? I'm > using Kubuntu 9.10 with their stock kernel 2.6.31 and the wireless > backports modules right now, but tests with Kubuntu 10.4 Beta and > 2.6.32 failed as well. Generally, sony-laptop would be responsible for correctly reporting the rfkill switch state. Hth! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
