On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 00:32 +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote: > On 18/08/14 21:10, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Older Intel wifi controllers don't include Bluetooth, so any mechanism > > that affects both wifi and BT must be implemented elsewhere. So this > > can't be a (wifi) firmware bug. > > Hey, > > It appears that the Bluetooth problem was just a false lead and > Bluetooth is not affected by this issue:
OK.
> On 08/08/14 03:41, Alan Wilson wrote:
> > Bluetooth seems to be behaving itself since I re-installed the
> > firmware. It can be switched by both hardware and software back and
> > forth - behaves as it ought.
>
> That's why I didn't mention Bluetooth in my summary. I should have
> probably clearly stated that it not affected, despite being mentioned in
> the original bug report - sorry for that. Only a WiFi seems to be
> problematic.
Even if this is a ipw2200 firmware bug, there will be no more updates to
that firmware so the problem can only be solved by a workaround in the
kernel.
Alan, can you test what happens if you try to switch wifi off and on
while the hp_wmi driver is not loaded (i.e. run 'rmmod hp_wmi' before
testing)?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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