| Summary: | NetworkManager mis-detects RF kill switch | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | patrick korsnick <korsnick> |
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 15 | CC: | dcbw, jklimes |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-10-26 08:14:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
patrick korsnick
2011-10-13 04:40:47 UTC
both the HW wifi switch and BIOS wifi settings are enabled. playing around with Fn-F5 (wifi enable/disable) produces entries in /var/log/messages, but even when you switch it to "enabled" NM ultimately says wifi disabled by killswitch in the logs. Would you paste output of $ rfkill list when you switch WiFi on and off? A platform driver might block Wi-Fi (e.g. acer-wmi). See also http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/blog/2010/12/wireless-not-working-in-ubuntu-on-the-lenovo-ideapad-s12/ [root@wintermute rfkill-0.4]# ./rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no as per that link you posted i tried ubuntu out and 11.10 produced the same error about the kill switch as fedora. installing ubuntu 10.04LTS and clicking on the install missing drivers thing in the top menu and installing the STA driver it worked just fine with no further tweaking oops, i accidentally uploaded the rfkill output from the wrong machine. please disregard the rfkill output in comment 3. here is the correct output: [root@santorini rfkill-0.4]# ./rfkill list 0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 4: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SOLVED! thanks jirka, your suggestion about the other driver causing the problem (comment #2) was spot on. by blacklisting the acer-wmi driver i was able to simply 'yum install broadcom-wl' and reboot and had wireless working perfectly! (In reply to comment #5) > SOLVED! > Great! |