Bug#681819: iwlwifi: rfkill stuck on Soft blocked: yes with Centrino 6205

2013-04-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Yaroslav,

On 2012-07-16 21:58, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
 This was a freshly dual-booted Debian squeeze on Thinkpad T420s.  Centrino 
 6205
 seemd to be not supported on 2.6.32 at all so we dist-upgraded to current
 testing/wheezy to get WiFi working.
 
 Now soft mode of rfkill remains in enabled regardless what I do:
 
 root@brain:/var/log# rfkill list all
 2: phy2: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: yes
   Hard blocked: no

I had the same problem with another Thinkpad model, and looking for the
cause was driving me nuts.

Then I stumbled over #662183, where Thomas mentions the exact same
problem and a solution: resetting the BIOS. And indeed, that also worked
for me -- the issue is now resolved.

How about giving that a try?

Cheers,
Christian


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Bug#681819: iwlwifi: rfkill stuck on Soft blocked: yes with Centrino 6205

2012-07-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: src Version: 3.2.21-3 Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer, 

This was a freshly dual-booted Debian squeeze on Thinkpad T420s.  Centrino 6205
seemd to be not supported on 2.6.32 at all so we dist-upgraded to current
testing/wheezy to get WiFi working.

Now soft mode of rfkill remains in enabled regardless what I do:

root@brain:/var/log# rfkill list all
2: phy2: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
root@brain:/var/log# rfkill unblock all
root@brain:/var/log# rfkill unblock wiki
Bogus unblock argument 'wiki'.
root@brain:/var/log# rfkill unblock phy2
Bogus unblock argument 'phy2'.
root@brain:/var/log# rfkill unblock 2
root@brain:/var/log# rfkill list all
2: phy2: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no


rfkill event shows that it seems to unblock it for a moment (both soft
and hard 0)

1342465506.392031: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
1342465506.392123: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0
1342465507.585840: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
1342465507.585920: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0
1342465975.825423: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
1342465975.825509: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0
1342465979.911849: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
1342465979.911870: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0
1342465991.670550: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0
1342465991.670621: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0

rmmod and modprobe of iwlwifi did not help.

Is there a way to override 'soft blocked' mode entirely may be as a
workaround?

Please advise

-- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 3.2.0-3-amd64 
(Debian 3.2.21-3) (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.6.3 
(Debian 4.6.3-8) ) #1 SMP Thu Jun 28 09:07:26 UTC 2012

** Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64 
root=/dev/mapper/brain-root ro quiet

** Not tainted

** Kernel log: [ 8.751669] snd_hda_intel :00:1b.0: setting latency 
timer to 64 [ 8.843414] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: [ 
8.843421] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), 
(max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [ 8.843427] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 
2472000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 8.843433] cfg80211: 
(2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 2 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 8.843438] 
cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 2 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 
8.843443] cfg80211: (517 KHz - 525 KHz @ 4 KHz), (300 mBi, 
2000 mBm) [ 8.843448] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 4 KHz), 
(300 mBi, 2000 mBm) [ 9.321257] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/input/input11 [ 9.343342] HDMI status: 
Codec=3 Pin=5 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0 [ 9.343803] HDMI status: 
Codec=3 Pin=6 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0 [ 9.344029] HDMI status: 
Codec=3 Pin=7 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0 [ 9.344404] input: HDA Intel 
PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12 [ 9.344683] input: 
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13 [ 9.344938] input: 
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as 
/devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input14 [ 10.785344] 
EXT3-fs (dm-0): using internal journal [ 10.908807] loop: module loaded 
[ 12.185170] Adding 1949692k swap on /dev/mapper/brain-swap.  
Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1949692k [ 12.848801] kjournald starting.  
Commit interval 5 seconds [ 12.849071] EXT3-fs (sda5): using internal 
journal [ 12.849079] EXT3-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered 
data mode [ 12.862309] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds [ 
12.862737] EXT3-fs (dm-2): using internal journal [ 12.862744] EXT3-fs 
(dm-2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode [ 14.030242] RPC: 
Registered named UNIX socket transport module. [ 14.030253] RPC: 
Registered udp transport module. [ 14.030258] RPC: Registered tcp 
transport module. [ 14.030264] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel 
transport module. [ 14.079434] FS-Cache: Loaded [ 14.099189] FS-Cache: 
Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching [ 14.107286] Installing knfsd 
(copyright (C) 1996 o...@monad.swb.de). [ 14.492673] IBM TrackPoint 
firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3 [ 14.755193] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint 
as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input15 [ 15.358951] fuse 
init (API version 7.17) [ 18.947091] e1000e :00:19.0: irq 42 for 
MSI/MSI-X [ 19.002696] e1000e :00:19.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X [ 
19.004016] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 20.123483] 
input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input16 [ 
20.584964] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow 
Control: None [ 20.584969] e1000e :00:19.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: 
disabling TSO [ 20.585621] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes 
ready [ 21.221162] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 21.221182] NET: Registered 
protocol family 31 [ 21.221184] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection 
manager initialized [ 21.221186] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized 
[ 21.221188] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 21.221192] 
Bluetooth: SCO