On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
>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.
>
With all due respect Michael, if it has been disabled by the panel switch such
as the one on my lappy, can it not be made to emit such an error message so
that we know we have to toggle that pushbutton? On my HP- dv5120us, there is
no tactile feel, or any other means to determine the state of this switch, an
apparently push-push switch. The LED is no help cuz you can and do turn it
on and off at will regardless of the state of the switch. Having to push the
button and reboot to see if that fixes it doesn't seem like a very productive
way to spend an evening. So I give up and plug in a cable, hundreds of times
faster to get a network connection, or if on the road, to borrow a little
dlink tranceiver from the motel. That after all, is the target condition we
are trying to achieve.
>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.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
<Peaker> the difference between theory and practice is just a lot of work
- from #offtopic (the offtopic chat channel of #kernelnewbies)
_______________________________________________
Bcm43xx-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
