Description of problem: Can't activate atheros card. Network Manager is grayed out saying hardware switch disabled. The switch can be on or off, I still get this message. I will attach more in a comment below from the box with the issue. System is a Lenovo G560. lspci info rfkill info etc, forthcoming. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): linux-3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Always reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to Fedora 2. Try to activate wireless 3. Wireless is grayed out Actual results: Wireless is unavailable. message is "Wireless is disabled by hardware switch" Expected results: Expect to be able to connect to wireless as was possible on Fedora 14. Additional info: Forthcoming.
lspci -kv 05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 30a1 Physical Slot: 1 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 Memory at d6400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: ath9k Kernel modules: ath9k With hardware switch on: [root@localhost ~]# rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes With hardware switch off: [root@localhost ~]# rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes rfkill event shows no events when switch is pushed one way or the other. [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 3.4.2-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 14 20:17:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I tried uninstalling NetworkManager and using wicd to no avail. This was working before the upgrade from Fedora 14, and now is not (so I am currently tethered to cables :-( )
Is this still an issue with 3.6.9 kernels?