From: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@xxxxxx> commit 1598bfa8e1faa932de42e1ee7628a1c4c4263f0a upstream. After upgrading BIOS to U82 01.02.01 Rev.A, the console is flooded strange char "^@" which printed out every second and makes login nearly impossible. Also the below messages were shown both in console and journal/dmesg every second: usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. usb 1-3: device not accepting address 4, error -71 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/all, error -71 usb usb1-port3: unable to enumerate USB device Wifi is soft blocked by checking rfkill. When unblocked manually, after few seconds it would be soft blocked again. So I was suspecting something triggered rfkill to soft block wifi. At the end it was fixed by removing hp_wmi module. The root cause is the way hp-wmi driver handles command 1B on post-2009 BIOS. In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate that BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless devices. Signed-off-by: Jorge Lopez <jorge.lopez2@xxxxxx> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216468 Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221028155527.7724-1-jorge.lopez2@xxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c @@ -899,8 +899,16 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_bios_setup(stru wwan_rfkill = NULL; rfkill2_count = 0; - if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) - hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device); + /* + * In pre-2009 BIOS, command 1Bh return 0x4 to indicate that + * BIOS no longer controls the power for the wireless + * devices. All features supported by this command will no + * longer be supported. + */ + if (!hp_wmi_bios_2009_later()) { + if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) + hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device); + } err = device_create_file(&device->dev, &dev_attr_display); if (err)
