Dell Vostro 1720 wireless switch's state incorrect

[Daniel Cardin]

Binary package hint: hal

There have been many problems with the switch detection. But un Jaunty I have been able to make wireless properly by not upgrading the hal package, but since Karmic, network-manager cannot be used anymore.

This is a major problem, because I cannot see any workaround for "normal" users that cannot use wpa_supplicant.

rfkill reports:
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
3: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

I have tried echoing 1 to /sys/devices/virtual/rfkill/rfkill1/state with not success.

Is there anything that can be done to "force" the switch being detected as ON until there is a permanent fix ?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 10 10:47:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.43-generic
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2045): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2201): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2137): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (Do:2187): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.

[Daniel Cardin (daniel-cardin)]

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