Bug 676933

Summary: rfkill phy0: WIreless LAN is stuck hard blocked
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2011-02-11 21:41:33 UTC
Description of problem:

I cannot get phy0: Wireless lan rfkill switch to stop being in the hard blocked state.

I can toggle the hp-wifi/hp-bluetooth kill switches with the hard ware toggle:

[root@adelie ~]# rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
[root@adelie ~]# rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64

Also tried kernel-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 and kernel-2.6.38-0.rc4.git0.1.fc15.x86_64 but they were no different.

hardware:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
HP EliteBook 8730w Bios version F.11

I also tried disabling the hp_wmi but no help.

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2011-08-29 18:57:14 UTC
User error.  The BIOS was configured to disable wifi when the wired ethernet was active.