Hi Raplh, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 01:06:05PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > 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. Yes, it's most likely that sony-laptop would be the one module to point fingers at. Could you send the DSDT from your laptop and the output of dmesg after loading sony-laptop with debug=1 and switching the rfkill trigger back and forth? also the output from: $ grep . /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill*/* Thanks -- mattia :wq! -- 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
