[Bug 1947558] Re: rfkill fails to turn on wifi card on Dell Latitude 5490

2021-10-19 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
Found a fix : Get into Bios (F2 At boot) Go to : Power Management -> Wireless Radio Control -> Turn everything OFF This prevents hardware lock of wifi card when going into suspend and undocking from Dell dock. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1947558] Re: rfkill fails to turn on wifi card on Dell Latitude 5490

2021-10-18 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
Note : it might be a problem in the ilwifi driver. I am not sure. Perhaps rf-kill does the block properly on suspend But fails to unblock the card because the ilwifi driver does not bring it back from "hardware lock" to "available" on resume. So I am not sure of where the problem is, but I tend to

[Bug 1947558] Re: rfkill fails to turn on wifi card on Dell Latitude 5490

2021-10-18 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
tried to use rfkill to bring the wifi card back, fails : after wake from suspend : gilbert@alpha:~$ sudo rfkill list 1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: phy0: Wireless LAN