Bug#756947: general: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, diabling the wifi radio via hardware button or via network manager leaves radios (wifi and bt) disabled. Only means to re-enable is via BIOS - restore defaults (no BIOS setting changed by user). HP Compaq nc6230 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140803192945.7291.15246.reportbug@debian1
Bug#756947: general: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable
al wilson al_wil...@ns.sympatico.ca writes: diabling the wifi radio via hardware button or via network manager leaves radios (wifi and bt) disabled. Only means to re-enable is via BIOS - restore defaults (no BIOS setting changed by user). Does rfkill unblock succeed in re-enabling your wireless? (You may have to install the rfkill package.) If so, that probably indicates a bug of some kind in Network Manager. If not, that probably means that Linux itself doesn't support re-enabling the wireless device from software (or at least rfkill doesn't know how), which you could report as a bug against the relevant wireless drivers, but which is a deeper problem. One other thing that you could try is to be sure that the firmware for your wireless card is installed. Some wireless cards have (often non-free) firmware that is required to enable various features. That's packaged as the various firmware-* packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/874mxtcpjv@windlord.stanford.edu
