Hi Ludovico, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:
> with the new kernel (2.6.37) my wireless connection stopped working. The > wlan0 device was present, but Network Manager was reporting wireless as > disabled. > > Moreover the Wifi/Bluetppth on/off switch was having no effect at all > (the LED next to it would always stay in the "ON" color). > > In order to fix it, I had to blacklist the "hp-wmi" modules, which > apparently was grabbing the resources for thr rfkill switch before the > wireless driver was able to do it. > > Here is the dmesg when the hp-wmi was not blackisted: > [ 5.423630] wmi: Mapper loaded > [ 7.417578] input: HP WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input6 > [ 7.890160] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' > [ 8.016621] ACPI Error: [Z007] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS > (20101013/dsfield-143) Interesting. There have been some rfkill fixes in this driver upstream, so please test 2.6.39-rc1 or newer from sid. If it still reproduces the problem, please attach full "dmesg" output from booting. Thanks and sorry for the slow response, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
