Description of problem: It seems wireless radio is disabled on HP nx6110 notebook. After boot LED indicating radio is on, but wireless does not work. Here is info from dmesg related to b43: b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found b43-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 3, Type 2, Revision 7 b43-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 8 input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input8 firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10) b43-phy0 debug: Chip initialized b43-phy0 debug: 32-bit DMA initialized Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio b43-phy0 debug: Wireless interface started b43-phy0 debug: Adding Interface type 2 b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED Maybe this is somehow connected: initially, after boot, lid switch does not work, but when radio kill button is pressed, backlight goes off for the moment and lid switch starts to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.27.4-68.fc10.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Wireless does not work, radio kill button does not turn on wireless radio. Expected results: Working wireless, radio kill button turns on/off wireless radio. Additional info: BCM4318 firmware taken from: http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 extracted with: b43-fwcutter-011-3.fc9.i386
After enabling wireless in windows xp, it started to work, but LED sometimes does not work. After boot LED always goes on (when wl driver starts), then when button is pressed, it goes off and never goes on, but sometimes after boot it works. Strange.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This might require some laptop-specific code, not sure.
It looks like 2.6.29 kernels have a module intended to address buttons on HP laptops. Could you try this kernel? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=83870
Hopefully that worked? In any case, closed due to lack of response...
Don't know which kernel module is responsible for buttons, but just installed 2.6.29.3-60.fc10.i686 from updates-testing and unfortunately nothing has changed.
It seems kernel guys started working on this: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13263