Hi,
How to fix or debug the $subject? You always have to press Fn+F2 to hard
unblock the rfkill after every boot on a local brand laptop.
If the rfkill switch is really a switch which can be toggled on/off,
this makes sense. If you keep it Off, it will come as blocked. But it
seems that on this machine Fn+F2 controls the hard block state.
It should either be saved in somewhere (I've read that there is a
persistent knob for rfkill drivers in sysfs which tells whether the
state is kept in a non-volatile space across boots or not) or all soft
and this kind of Fn+Fx hard blocks should be explicitly disabled by
kernel during boots.
I don't have direct access to the machine but the owner will help if you
need any output, etc.
After booting:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
After pressing Fn+F2:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Device 1a3b:1089
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f1d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-15-17-ff-ff-24-14-12
Capabilities: [170] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
This is on 2.6.37. I'm waiting for the dmesg output.
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