Created attachment 822044 [details] dmesg Description of problem: The Physical Wireless LAN is hard blocked on my Fedora 19 kernel v-3.11.6.201.fc19.i686.The kernel driver in use for the wireless LAN is bcma-pci-bridge.But,there is this default module loaded for my system,asus_wmi,which might be blocking the brcmsmac driver from loading. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager- 1:0.9.8.8-1.fc19 Kernel-3.11.6.201.fc19.i686 How reproducible: Turn off the wifi.Remove the asus_wmi module,restart the machine,turn on the wifi,still the Physical wireless LAN is hard blocked. Steps to Reproduce: Always reproducible. Actual results: rmmod: ERROR: could not remove 'asus_wmi': Resource temporarily unavailable rmmod: ERROR: could not remove module asus_wmi: Resource temporarily unavailable rfkill list 0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes Expected results: The driver asus_wmi should be removed.(which might be blocking the bcma driver from loading.) 0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Additional info: Attached the lspci,lsmod,dmesg outputs.
Created attachment 822045 [details] lspci
Created attachment 822046 [details] lsmod
This is a kernel problem; if the kernel is fixed to handle rfkill on your machine, then NetworkManager will work accordingly.
If you do: echo 'options asus-nb-wmi wapf=4' > /etc/modprobe.d/asus.conf and restart system, does it workaround the problem ?
Soumen, can you give us the info as asked by Stanislaw in comment 4? Thanks, Michele
There isn't any change in the behaiviour.
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