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Re: b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> It could be that hp-wmi doesn't have support for these models yet, or
> that the dv6-1300sb is simply completely different.  But for example, on
> my Elitebook 2530p, there's a softswitch that pokes BIOS, and when BIOS
> is softkilled, the onboard wifi becomes hardkilled.  To unkill, I need
> to unblock BIOS, which then either unblocks wifi, or turns the wifi
> hardkill into a softkill.  Convoluted.

Yeah. I'd be interested in seeing the output of acpidump on this 
machine, but right now it sounds like b43 is behaving correctly - the 
fact that the light is out implies that the bios is killing it.

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