Hello wireless-linux experts,
I have installed yesterday the last opensuse 11.3 rc4 on a
hp pavilion dv6-1300sb laptop which is has a
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
as wireless chip.
I needed to install such a bleeding edge distro because opensuse 11.2 does
not have the lp_phy driver yet.
with dmesg, I see :
[ 21.818415] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw
[ 21.820519] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
[ 21.823084] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
[ 21.975380] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
[ 22.076456] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
[ 22.077743] b43-phy0: Radio turned on by software
[ 22.077747] b43-phy0: The hardware RF-kill button still turns the radio physically off. Press the button to turn it on.
[ 22.078413] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
this is confirmed by rfkill :
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
BUT, I DON'T SEE A HARDWARE RF-KILL button; I only see a red-lighted wireless
symbol, which is also a touch-key; in console mode, when I touch this
touch-key I get a message asking me to
'setkey e014 <keycode>'
I have already seen this symbol being blue-lighted in the first seconds of
linux booting, but I don't know what changes this color or if this has
an effect on the 'hardware' RF-kill button. In the BIOS there is no option
to enable or disable the wireless interface.
Any hint ?
Thanks already for the good work so far
Philippe
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