Your message dated Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:33:43 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> has caused the report #544321, regarding libsmbios-bin: dellWirelessCtl reports incorrect rfkill information to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s)
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Michael We have this bug in at least 2.0.3 a 2.2.x. Could you please take a look at it ? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Bug#544321: libsmbios-bin: dellWirelessCtl reports incorrect rfkill information Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:11 +0000, Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:17 +0000 Resent-From: Sam Morris <[email protected]> Resent-To: [email protected] Resent-CC: [email protected], Jose Luis Tallon <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:14:14 +0100 From: Sam Morris <[email protected]> Reply-To: Sam Morris <[email protected]>, [email protected] To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Package: libsmbios-bin Version: 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On a Dell Vostro 1320, the dellWirelessCtl utility incorrectly claims that the wlan switch is disabled: # dellWirelessCtl --st_wlan; echo $? Radio Status for WLAN: WLAN supported WLAN installed WLAN disabled Status Code: 1 1 This breaks NetworkManager, which relies on the information about rfkill switches to be correct: it disables the bits of its user interface that allow the user to scan for and connect to networks when libsmbios-bin is installed on the system. I have also tested out version 2.2 from Ubuntu and it has the same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (540, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-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/bash Versions of packages libsmbios-bin depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libsmbios2 2.0.3.dfsg-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 libsmbios-bin recommends no packages. Versions of packages libsmbios-bin suggests: pn libsmbios-doc <none> (no description available)
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