So, maybe the silver lining of discovering I've asked a silly question is finding an answer shortly after. There is a physical switch on the left side of the case. Sorted.
Carry on! :-D On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Stephen Soltesz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all! > > I received my x200 last week from Francis and verified that everything > worked, including wireless networking. Since I am accustomed to a US > keyboard, I swapped my x200's UK keyboard for one with a US layout. I > made a backup of the libreboot rom[1] and then flashed an updated > libreboot rom[2] to default to the US keymap (and still boot the > preinstalled OS). > > But, after these steps, I noticed that the wireless card[3] was stuck > in a "hard blocked" state. > > $ rfkill list all > 0: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: yes > > The Fn+F5 keys on the x200 keyboard continues to toggle the Soft > blocked state, but I cannot reset the Hard blocked state after reboot > or any key combinations (apparently). > > So, I tried to restore the system to the its original state; I > swapping the keyboards again back to the UK layout, and then reflashed > the backup libreboot rom. Unfortunately, the wireless card is still in > a "Hard blocked" state and unusable. > > From your experiences, does it sound possible that the steps I took > have disabled the wireless card? Is there some initialization that > libreboot performs after first boot that I may have accidentally wiped > away? Is there a way to reenable the wireless card? > > If more information would be helpful, I'm happy to provide it. > > Thank you so much, > Stephen > > > > [1]: flashrom -p internal -r libreboot.rom > [2]: the binary builds from https://ginette.swordarmor.fr/libreboot/20150208/ > bin/x200_8mb/x200_8mb_usqwerty_vesafb.rom > [3]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) > $ lshw -C network > *-network DISABLED > description: Wireless interface > product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) > vendor: Qualcomm Atheros > physical id: 0 > bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 > logical name: wlan0 > version: 01 > serial: 00:26:5e:4b:bd:3f > width: 64 bits > clock: 33MHz > capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet > physical wireless > configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k > driverversion=3.13.0-39-lowlatency firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no > multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn > resources: irq:17 memory:e1500000-e150ffff > > [... eth0 snipped ...]
