On 30-Jul-2014 4:30 pm, "Mick" <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > So I got a new Lenovo G50. > > I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux > > friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). > > > > There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which > > apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things > > doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any > > way to change this? > > > > Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via > > windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). > > > > I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by > > yet another Google search result. > > What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any > hotkey setting. > > -- > Regards, > Mick
The soft block gets removed, but hard block remains, and there's no hardware switch for the same. If I remove the module it works without any problems.
