Bug 491299

What is your make and model of laptop?

It's a Fujitsu Siements Amilo Li 2735

Im having the same problem on an ACER aspire one, The system does not respond to the hwswitch, but is showing the wireless is disabled by kill switch. Is there a userland command that can be used to enable the stack?

Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add():#012Sucess#012
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_acer_wmi_rfkill_acer_wireless_wlan
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_68_c0_87_ea
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'ath5k')
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_22_69_3c_d4_c4
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
Apr  1 05:40:08 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch

The same problem with FC10, Compaq 6510q, wifi iwl3945!

Same problem with FC10, Dell XPS M1330, iwl3945

In HP Compaq 6510 I am resetting bios setting and restore factory default (no change default settings, except SATA). After this procedure, all switch in GNOME start working, (I am can wifi turn on/off), in KDE switch for wifi, working too (some switch or buttons /e.g. sleep/ not works).

I am supposed that problem is bound with switching cable/wifi network connection. When is active cable, not be active wifi and reverse. In bios can be this setting, just as in my case (Compaq).

(In reply to comment #5)
> Same problem with FC10, Dell XPS M1330, iwl3945  

Please disregard this comment.  Hardware actually does have a killswitch, which works as advertised.  Dang.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Changing to rawhide, as far as I am aware nothing is changed. Can anything be done to bring this closer to fixing? May be I could post the windows executable that does the magic in windows? Sorry for bumping, but I still have no choice, but to use Windows on my laptop.

Did you try to use acer-wmi module ? Over internet there are success stories about using this module with Amilo laptops (however not see Li 2735 there).

Wow, you are a genius! I can't understand why all these years struggling and googling, I haven't fount this information earlier... Now the question is, can this be auto loaded on amilo laptops for the benefit of everyone?

(In reply to comment #11)
> Now the question is, can
> this be auto loaded on amilo laptops for the benefit of everyone?  

Please contact Carlos Corbacho - acer-wmi maintainer and ask for adding this feature, here is more info: 

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.31/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt

Note: adding autoload should not be difficult, just we need to add proper MODULE_ALIAS() (taken from /sys/class/dmi/id/modalias) to driver, but I wonder why nobody did it before, perhaps there are some problems with that.

Thank you.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Ath5k module problems.
I'm not sure I'm following this properly but. 
On cold boot my Laptop WiFi works first time (Fujitsu Amilo Li 2727). 
Warm boot the wlan device is not visible even though the driver is loaded.
I worked round this by using modprobe to remove the module and re-insert it.
modprobe -r ath5k
modprobe ath5k 

Fedora 12
Upgraded from 11

F11 did not exhibit this behaviour.
I am using acer-wmi

Warm boot.

ath5k 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:08:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)

Remove the module
ath5k 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

After reloading the module.

This I think is to do with the "options ath_pci autocreate=sta rfkill=0"
Commenting this line out of "ath5k.conf" does not seem to change functionality.

ath5k: Unknown symbol ath_regd_get_band_ctl
ath5k: Unknown symbol ath_reg_notifier_apply
ath5k: Unknown symbol ath_is_world_regd
ath5k: Unknown symbol ath_regd_initegards


ath5k 0000:08:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ath5k 0000:08:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
ath5k 0000:08:00.0: registered as 'phy1'
ath5k phy1: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)

Works after that.

Regards
Ray

Hi Ray

Your problem is different, could you reproduce with recent f12 kernel and if issue still persist open separate bug report for that. Thank you.

Hi Ilya

Did you try to request feature to acer-wmi driver as I asked you in comment #12. Please note I can't work on it somehow since I have no such hardware.

acer-wmi should autoload on all devices it supports with .32 and later. I can backport this to .31, but I'll check on the kernel plans for F12 first. The Atheros issue seems unrelated.

As far as I know F12 will switch to .32 kernel as soon as it will start work with F12 Xwindow.

Since F12 update kernel to 2.6.32 I'm closing this bug. Please reopen if acer-wmi issue still persist.