Toshiba T230 Wireless Won't Turn On (Fn + F8)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The toshiba T230D's wireless won't turn on in linux if it is disabled in windows. If it's disabled the Fn + F8 key combination does nothing, and right clicking on the network-manager applet tells you that wireless is disabled but you can't turn it on. It's dimmed. (this is better than ubuntu 10.04 where enable wireless was an option, but if you tried to turn it on it would turn off straight away again with a popup that wireless is disabled)
Booting into windows 7 and turning the wireless on, then returning to ubuntu works fine until you want to turn it off to save battery power, getting on aircraft, etc.
Using the Fn + F8 key combination does nothing, and right clicking on the network-manager applet then clicking enable wireless (to disable it) does in fact turn it off on the software side of things (you can't see any APs for example) but the hardware light is still on and powertop still reccomends that wireless be turned off (to save power).
So in short, the only way to disable/enable it is via the software in Windows 7 (Toshiba's flash cards support utility) that displays the function keys on screen. To turn on or off in windows one needs to hold down Fn and press F8 once to display the on-screen toggle and once again to actually activate the toggle.
I was hoping the recent BIOS Update to 1.70 might allow for things like wireless to be turned on or off at the BIOS or whilst booting windows but this is not the case :(. All other Fn keys on the toshiba (brightness up/down, volume up/down, mute, suspend, hibernate, etc) all seem to work fine. It's just the wireless toggle that is not functioning as it should.
If any more information is required please let me know. I'm new to bug reporting and this is my first bug report.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
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: ALC259 Analog [ALC259 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xff700000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC259'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,
Controls : 13
Simple ctrls : 8
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xff410000 irq 19'
Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002791a,
Controls : 4
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Date: Mon Apr 18 20:55:35 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 064e:a216 Suyin Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite T230D
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.50
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/10/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: 1.70
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: NDU11
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:
dmi.product.name: Satellite T230D
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
| Jason Whiteley (jjcoolaus) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| penalvch (penalvch) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
| Mark Haase (mehaase) wrote | #4 |
| penalvch (penalvch) wrote | #5 |
Jason Whiteley, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://
If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications-
apport-collect -p linux <replace-
Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available? It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https:/
If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-
If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-
If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-
Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.
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