I have a laptop (Asus N50Vn) with Intel WiMAX/WiFi 5150 chipset intergraded, running Ubuntu 10.04. The problem is: I have to disable WiFi in order to enable WiMAX connection, but WiFi indicator on the front panel of my laptop keeps glowing, despite any taken measures, even if operating system reports wireless as switched off. WiFi (and Bluetooth) starts every time I boot Ubuntu.
A list of ways I tried to get rid of this problem:
1. Pressing the key combination that was supposed to disable wlan/bluetooth (Fn+F2) disables bluetooth only.
2. Unchecking "Enable Wireless" in network manager disconnects you from any existing wireless connection and reports WiFi as disabled, but WiFi indicator on the front panel of the laptop keeps glowing.
3. Disabling device driving module (sudo modprobe -r iwlagn) gives the same result (Also, "Enable Wireless" checkbox disappears from menu).
4. Using the switch on the front panel of my laptop is also useless.
5. Disabling WLAN in BIOS setting is useless too.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC663 Analog [ALC663 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: maxim 1535 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf9ff8000 irq 50'
Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0663,10431953,00100001 HDA:10de0006,10de0101,00100000'
Controls : 18
Simple ctrls : 8
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Frequency: Once a day.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4482312a-b871-4dc4-8bed-01ce5307960a
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. N50Vn
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic root=UUID=d3762a3c-36cd-4205-8877-5d9b7c49d9d5 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38.5
Reproducible: No
Tags: maverick kernel-net needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video
WifiSyslog:
dmi.bios.date: 03/05/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 211
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: N50Vn
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr211:bd03/05/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN50Vn:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnN50Vn:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: N50Vn
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
@Maxim, to add more information to this report, please run the following command from a terminal window on the affected computer while connected to the Internet:
apport-collect 729841