Bug 1307265 - WLAN hardware disabled on Asus X75VD
Summary: WLAN hardware disabled on Asus X75VD
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2016-02-13 20:01 UTC by Toni Willberg
Modified: 2016-05-26 19:29 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-05-26 19:29:56 UTC
Type: Bug

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Description Toni Willberg 2016-02-13 20:01:00 UTC 
After installing Fedora 23, the wlan device was hardware disabled.

Fn+F2 is supposed to turn on/off the wlan device, nothing happens when pressed.

Laptop: Asus X75VD http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/X75VD/
Hardware: 03:00.0 Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Workaround/fix:
 add this: "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4"
 to file: "/etc/modprobe.d/asus_nb_wmi.conf"
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2016-02-13 21:55:46 UTC 
A patch was posted upstream for this yesterday http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2151020.  We'll wait an see what upstream says and the backport.
Comment 2 Mike McCune 2016-03-28 22:52:26 UTC 
This bug was accidentally moved from POST to MODIFIED via an error in automation, please see mmccune with any questions
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2016-05-26 19:29:56 UTC 
This was fixed in 4.6-rc1 with commit 4670768779876c0a9071c026ddabe1ab8e6c7805
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