Bug 430569 - Excessive messages logged for wireless control on Dell laptop
Summary: Excessive messages logged for wireless control on Dell laptop
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-28 20:27 UTC by Liam Dennehy
Modified: 2008-04-10 19:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.6.6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-04-10 19:12:15 UTC
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Description Liam Dennehy 2008-01-28 20:27:22 UTC
Description of problem:
/var/log/messages filled with reference to dellWirelessCtl

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libsmbios-bin v0.13.13 (owns /usr/sbin/dellWirelessCtl)

How reproducible:
every 6 seconds, no intervention required

Steps to Reproduce:
1. unknown source, always occurs
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
/var/log/messages filled with lines similar to:
Jan 28 20:20:15 leopard NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch power:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 2 
Jan 28 20:20:51 leopard last message repeated 6 times
Jan 28 20:21:52 leopard last message repeated 10 times
Jan 28 20:22:53 leopard last message repeated 10 times
Jan 28 20:23:54 leopard last message repeated 10 times


Expected results:
No log entries for normal operation...


Additional info:
I have removed the supplied WLAN card and replaced with an Atheros card, output
from dellWirelessCtl:

# ./dellWirelessCtl --st_wlan
Radio Status for WLAN:
        WLAN supported
        WLAN not installed
        WLAN enabled
        Status Code: 2

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-02-29 20:58:41 UTC
Just a note; will be updating F7 to 0.6.6 soon which will suppress duplicates here.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2008-04-10 19:12:15 UTC
0.6.6 pushed for F7.


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