Bug 726756

Summary:	Airplane Mode Won't Turn Off/Wireless Doesn't Stay On
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	snowlife540
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	dcbw, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mads
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Description snowlife540 2011-07-29 17:55:02 UTC

Description of problem:

After installing Fedora 15 on my laptop, Acer Aspire 7551-7422, the wireless doesn't work.

I've been searching and trying every possible solution I have seen on the internet and on the bug reports.

There is no hard switch, just a Fn -> F3 to toggle, which doesn't work on Linux.

I'm dual booting Win7, which wireless works flawlessly there.

It does say under dmesg: WiFi disabled by radio killswitch;

and under rfkill list: 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I should also warn you, I'm still very new to Linux.

The Airplane Mode switch never stays to Off, it will always switch right back to On. As well as the Wireless switch, Immediately switches to Off and clicking it On.


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Comment 1 Dan Williams 2011-07-29 20:55:12 UTC

if rfkill list says it's off, it's a kernel issue...

Comment 2 snowlife540 2011-07-30 03:39:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> if rfkill list says it's off, it's a kernel issue...

And what does that mean? Is it fixable?

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2011-08-01 21:37:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > if rfkill list says it's off, it's a kernel issue...
> 
> And what does that mean? Is it fixable?

No, just that it's not a NetworkManager issue.  It's likely that you have new hardware that the kernel doesn't properly know about yet, or that your hardware has a quirk that the kernel code doesn't handle yet.  But the only way to fix that is to re-assign the bug to the kernel, where people that handle rfkill issues are likely to see it.

Comment 4 snowlife540 2011-08-22 16:16:19 UTC

Need some help, please?

Comment 5 Josh Boyer 2012-06-06 16:45:48 UTC

Are you still seeing this issue with the 2.6.43/3.3 kernel update?

Comment 6 Josh Boyer 2012-07-11 17:49:43 UTC

Fedora 15 has reached it's end of life as of June 26, 2012.  As a result, we will not be fixing any remaining bugs found in Fedora 15.

In the event that you have upgraded to a newer release and the bug you reported is still present, please reopen the bug and set the version field to the newest release you have encountered the issue with.  Before doing so, please ensure you are testing the latest kernel update in that release and attach any new and relevant information you may have gathered.

Thank you for taking the time to file a report.  We hope newer versions of Fedora suit your needs.