Bug 540038
| Summary: | NetworkManager mis-detects RF kill switch (doesn't allow wireless connections) | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mike <joeshmo00> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John Feeney <jfeeney> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | anton, collura, conradsand.fb, dcbw, dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, joeshmo00, jonathan, kernel-maint, the | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Clone Of: | 510662 | Environment: | |||||||
| Last Closed: | 2010-12-04 03:00:48 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Mike
2009-11-22 01:17:14 UTC
I would like to provide more info on this bug since it still exists in F12. Please tell me what info you need. I am experiencing this bug on my Dell D830 running F12 64 bit. What's the output of: cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/state and also of: cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/type ? # cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/state 1 # cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/type wlan Ok, can you also attach /var/log/messages to this bug report? I'd like to see what killswitches NetworkManager finds and what state it detects them in. It looks like the kernel thinks your killswitch is set to allow wireless, so we need to figure out why NM doesn't think so. Created attachment 385575 [details]
/var/log/messages
FWIW, blacklisting dell-laptop seems to fix the issue. <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/430809/comments/79> Is that /var/log/messages *after* you blacklisted dell-laptop? THe line here: Jan 19 21:31:47 tag3001-fedora NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch says that NM thinks your killswitch is set to allow wifi, which would contradict the original issue in this bug... Comment on attachment 385575 [details]
/var/log/messages
this log is with the blacklisted dell-laptop module
Created attachment 386002 [details]
this log is without the blacklisted dell-laptop module
Jan 21 06:12:38 tag3001-fedora NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0) (driver <unknown>) Jan 21 06:12:38 tag3001-fedora NetworkManager: <info> Found radio killswitch rfkill1 (at /sys/devices/virtual/rfkill/rfkill1) (driver <unknown>) Jan 21 06:12:38 tag3001-fedora NetworkManager: <info> Wireless disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Over to kernel for why dell-laptop misdetects your machine and thinks it's rfkilled. Could you please install the smbios-utils package and attach the output of the dellWirelessCtl -i comand, run as root? # dellWirelessCtl --info (I assume this is what you meant) Libsmbios version : 2.2.16 smbios-wireless-ctl version : 2.2.16 Wireless Info: Hardware switch supported Hardware switch is Off WiFi Locator supported Wireless Keyboard not supported NVRAM Size: 256 bytes NVRAM format version: 1 Radio Status for WLAN: WLAN enabled at boot WLAN supported WLAN enabled WLAN installed WLAN not controlled by wireless switch at boot WLAN runtime switch control currently disabled Status Code: 0 Radio Status for Bluetooth: Bluetooth enabled at boot Bluetooth supported Bluetooth disabled Bluetooth installed Bluetooth controlled by wireless switch at boot Bluetooth runtime switch control currently enabled Status Code: 1 Radio Status for WWAN: WWAN disabled at boot WWAN supported WWAN disabled WWAN not installed WWAN not controlled by wireless switch at boot WWAN runtime switch control currently disabled Status Code: 2 Wireless Switch Configuration WLAN switch control: off Bluetooth switch control: on WWAN switch control: off switch config: not locked WiFi locator: disabled WiFi Locator config: not locked Ok, I see the issue and have a patch for it. I'll test now. This also applies in F13. (In reply to comment #14) > This also applies in F13. I managed to get the original laptop for a little while (see comment #1). This bug doesn't seem to occur in RHEL 6 beta 1. Did RHEL get the fix while Fedora didn't ? (In reply to comment #15) > I managed to get the original laptop for a little while (see comment #1). Apologies, the description of the laptop is in the first post (Description), rather than the first comment. This message is a reminder that Fedora 12 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 12. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '12'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 12's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 12 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This seems to work fine in F14 32bit. Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |