Package: network-manager Version: 0.7.2-2 Severity: important On startup on my Dell E4300 laptop NetworkManager reports:
Jan 27 14:23:13 finisterre NetworkManager: <WARN> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power: dellWirelessCtl (/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl) not available or executable. Jan 27 14:23:13 finisterre NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch rendering the WiFi unusable with NetworkManager, which is clearly undesirable. This behaviour was introduced by a recent system upgrade, though unfortunately I have not diagnosed what specifically introduced it. Network Manager does not visibly appear to recommend or suggest a package which may include this dellWirelessCtl utility, and I can't seem to locate a package in Debian which includes it. The requirement for this utility appears to be spurious since the kernel rfkill subsystem already exposes the rfkill switch on the laptop and hooks it up to the WiFi adaptor: [ 9878.291615] iwlagn 0000:0c:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. so nothing other than the standard kernel interfaces should be required in order to provide rfkill functionality on the system. Severity important since this kills WiFi functionality on a fairly large group of machines. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2 DHCP client ii hal 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii ifupdown 0.6.9 high level tools to configure netw ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libhal1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libnl1 1.1-5 library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-glib0 0.7.2-2 network management framework (GLib pn libnm-util1 <none> (no description available) ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-4 library for accessing PolicyKit vi ii libpolkit2 0.9-4 library for accessing PolicyKit ii libudev0 150-2 libudev shared library ii libuuid1 2.16.2-0 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii wpasupplicant 0.6.9-3 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: pn dnsmasq-base <none> (no description available) ii iptables 1.4.6-2 administration tools for packet fi ii network-manager-gnome 0.7.2-2 network management framework (GNOM ii policykit 0.9-4 framework for managing administrat pn ppp <none> (no description available) Versions of packages network-manager suggests: ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.25-3 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org