From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5 Description of problem: Power up thinkpad with rf switch ON: network manager detects all wireless networks and works correctly Power up thinkpad with rf switch OFF: network manager does not detect any wireless network, only shows wired network adapter. Change switch position to ON: only bluethoot activates, network manager never detects card or wireless networks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Power up laptop with rf switch off 2. 3. Actual Results: No wireless networks or wireless cards in network manager Expected Results: Wireless cards and networks appear in Network Manager. Connect to wireless network. Additional info: dmesg output when switch rf switch on and off: RF Switch ON: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0a5c, idProduct=2110 usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 usb 3-1: Product: BCM2045B usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Broadcom Corp RF Switch OFF: usb 3-1: USB disconnect, address 6
This bug has been assigned to the wrong component. Can you provide an output of theses command. (or the smolt profile for your laptop) /sbin/lspci /sbin/lsusb This also seems useful, a "full" dmesg output. (once with RFKS on, and the other off) and also dmesg |tail when switch goes from ON to OFF. (Pick "Create a New Attachment" to upload each file ) Note that we usually say that RF kill switch (Radio Frequency Kill switch) is OFF when you can use your wireless, whereas is it is ON when wireless is disabled.
Created attachment 306852 [details] lspci result
Created attachment 306853 [details] lsusb result
Created attachment 306854 [details] dmesg output with rf killswitch off
Created attachment 306855 [details] dmesg output with rf killswitch on
Created attachment 306856 [details] dmesg output when switching rf killswitch on to off
Can you replicate this issue with the kernels here? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=50669
Booted the new kernel with the rf killswitch off, logged in then system hung with caps lock led flashing. Booted the new kernel with rf killswitch on, system working fine, no wireless, switch rf kill switch off still no wireless but system did not hang.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 447166 ***