On Wednesday 24 December 2008 11:16:36 Ulf Dambacher wrote: > Matthew Garrett schrieb: > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:08:17PM +0100, Ulf Dambacher wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I hav a dell inspiron 5100 and it has no hardware button device to > >> toggle rfkill. > >> The broadcom bcm4301 card has this feature and the driver sees it and > >> disables itself hard, wich can not be overwritten by software. > > > > The dell-laptop driver is worth a go - it provides support for > > controlling the Dell-specific rfkill interface. It may (or may not) help > > here. > > > > Hi Matthew > > I still don't think its a general problem, but a problem that b43legacy > does miss something bcm43xx does to initialize my hardware to enable it.
We cannot enable the radio from within the driver, if it's hardware disabled. We cannot do this in b43legacy and we cannot do this in bcm43xx. Fullstop. If it fails now and didn't fail earlier, it almost certainly is something _else_ that disables the rf. Please make sure _all_ dell related kernel modules are loaded and all dell related kernel options are enabled (there are quite a few). And try to use the dell-tool that was suggested earlier in the thread. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
