HP Pavilion DV6 Wifi Button Red/Blue blinking

[Peter Roos]

Machine: HP Pavilion DV6 1240ez Laptop.
Problem: The laptop has a touch button for hardware disable/enable wifi and bluetooth. It is blue when On, red when Off. The touch button works, so if i press it, it enables hardware block (I can see it from rfkill list). But the problem is, that when i transfer data (example: surfing internet), the button blinks to show it (red blue red blue..). But it shouldn't.
PS.: If i install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, without updates, this problem also occours. If i install all the updates, the problem vanishes. I don't really understand, that if ubuntu has a fix in 10.04, why wasn't it straightly ported in 10.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 12 21:12:03 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

[Peter Roos (roospeteristvan)]

dmesg command states:

[ 8.627889] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 8.627892] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
[ 8.627989] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 8.628017] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 8.628122] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN, REV=0x54

rfkill list

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

[Peter Roos (roospeteristvan)]

IMPORTANT:
I noticed problem only occours, when Bluetooth is disebled on panel (soft block)

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

I have noticed the same occurrence on my HP dv7 laptop, the connection does not seems to be affected, but I'm sure what is causing the light to change colors from time to time.

[Peter Roos (roospeteristvan)]

So if you're sure what causes it, why don't you share your knowledge with us, to fix this problem? :S

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

Sorry, it's interesting that the absence of one little word can dramatically change the context/meaning of a sentence. I am NOT sure what is causing the light to change. I thought that it might be an indicator of traffic/activity but it does not happen often enough to justify it being that.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can you run in a terminal
apport-collect-p linux 659444
Thanks
Fabio

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xd2500000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD71B7X'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,103c3625,00100302 HDA:11c11040,103c137e,00100200'
   Controls : 21
   Simple ctrls : 13
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd2410000 irq 45'
   Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [on]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Frequency: Once a day.
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008.1)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/xhostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz --
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: No
StagingDrivers: lirc_ene0100
Tags: maverick kernel-uncat regression-release needs-upstream-testing staging
Title: [STAGING]
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 01/09/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.41
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 30FC
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 01.89
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.41:bd01/09/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv7NotebookPC:pvr1:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30FC:rvr01.89:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

Are you sure that this bug is a duplicate of #250211? The blinking that I see on my laptop is not incessant like what is described in #250211, the blinking that I witness occurs occasionally and is not repeatedly happening in a cycle from what I can tell.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Peter Roos, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Maverick reached EOL on April 10, 2012.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds ? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Please do not test the kernel in the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested and remove the tag:
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