Hi, Ike Panhc wrote:
> We have several reports which says acer-wmi is loaded on ideapads > and register rfkill for wifi which can not be unblocked. > > Since ideapad-laptop also register rfkill for wifi and it works > reliably, it will be fine acer-wmi is not going to register rfkill > for wifi once VPC2004 is found. [...] > Signed-off-by: Ike Panhc <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) Thanks! As described at <http://bugs.debian.org/655941>, without this patch, Andrey was not able to use wifi, getting the following message in the kernel log instead: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to enable radio. rfkill list gave 2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no regardless of the state of the actual radio kill switch. Unloading the acer_wmi was a workaround. With this patch, wifi works without needing to unload acer_wmi, so: Tested-by: Andrey <[email protected]> # Ideapad Z570 He tested against the 3.2.y tree. When applying this, please consider cc-ing stable@ so people using point releases can benefit from the fix, too. Happily, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
