Hi Larry,

Are you using a Dell laptop? A recent kernel change broke the WMI support to
some dell hardware. If it's your case, try blacklisting dell-laptop modules
and reseting your machine.


2011/3/13 Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>

> I am running openSUSE 11.4 with NetworkManager 0.8.2 and knetworkmanager
> 0.9. Usually everything works fine, but under some circumstances that are
> not understood, wireless is disabled. It is not blocked by a radio-kill
> switch, as 'rfkill list' shows
>
> 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
>        Soft blocked: no
>        Hard blocked: no
>
> Similarly, I see no reason for the block in /var/log/NetworkManager. For
> completeness, 'nmcli nm' shows
>
> RUNNING  STATE           WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN
> running  disconnected    enabled         disabled   enabled         enabled
>
> Are there any other commands that might tell me where the problem is
> occurring? Switching from knetworkmanager to the plasmoid networkmanager
> package clears the problem, but I would like to understand the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
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