hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch is disabling Wifi and BT on jaunty->karmic upgraded systems
Bug #416597 reported by
Mario Limonciello
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #430809: [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch.
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Bug Description
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I've verified this now on two different Dell laptops (supported by dell-laptop kernel module) that were upgraded from jaunty->karmic.
You start out with the hardware killswitch enabled (eg BT and WLAN are both ON). You boot into an install that was dist-upgraded to karmic. The BT and WLAN device both remains on for part of the boot and suddenly turn off.
I added debugging output to the dell-laptop kernel module's set and query functions including a WARN_ON(1). Looking at this it appears that that hald-addon-
This *only* happens on upgraded installs. Booting off a USB key with a fresh karmic daily it doesn't occur.
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| Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote | #1 |
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