Public bug reported:
There are two issues:
1. Bug 914838
The softkey is unmapped
2. The softkey, after being maped, does not do anything.
In oneiric, this was solved by manually installing the urfkill package.
However, after upgrading to precise, it no longer works.
Even when it was working in oneiric, there was a small issue. The HP
laptop docs say that if any wireless device (wifi or bluetooth) is
active, the softkey light should be blue, and in Windows it works this
way. However, in oneiric, using the bluetooth indicator applet to turn
off just bluetooth makes the light orange (disabled) even though
wireless is still active. The reason is as follows:
'rfkill list' shows 2 bluetooth devices:
ian@wallyworld:/etc$ rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
16: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
The bluetooth indicator applet does a 'rfkill block 1'. What it needs to
do instead is 'rfkill block 16'. If I do this manually, this stops
bluetooth (and even the bluetooth indicator goes grey as expected), but
it correctly leaves the soft key light blue because wireless is still
working.
ian@wallyworld:/etc$ sudo rfkill block 16
ian@wallyworld:/etc$ rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
16: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
Sadly, each time bluctooth is toggled on/off, the item number for
hci0:bluetooth increments by one, so the next time it would need to do a
rfkill block 17 etc.
Ideally, the bluetooth indicator on/off would toggle the hci0:bluetooth
device and then everything would be as expected.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: acpi-support 0.138
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 14 18:06:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
SourcePackage: acpi-support
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-13 (0 days ago)
** Affects: acpi-support (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity
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HP 6540B soft wireless switch not working
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