On 03/29/2010 03:12 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > 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 Is the module hp-wmi loaded? That module is designed to implement all of the special keys for HP laptops. Larry -- 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
