During Oneiric cert testing on a Latitude E6510, I attempted to turn wireless off and on using the slider switch. This system does not appear to have a wireless soft switch like some systems, so the physical switch is the only option, thus, this is a blocker for certification.
Sliding the switch off and on does indeed turn wireless off, but wireless never comes back on after that. nm applet simply says Device Not Ready in the wireless status. rfkill shows that blocks are removed.
Here's rfkill with the slider switch in the off position:
ubuntu@201103-7383:~$ rfkill list all
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
And here's rfkill after sliding the switch back to the ON position:
ubuntu@201103-7383:~$ rfkill list all
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic 3.0.0-12.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: ubuntu 1700 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 1700 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: ubuntu 1700 F...m pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0x59660000 irq 44'
Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD81B1C5'
Components : 'HDA:111d76d5,1028040b,00100104'
Controls : 15
Simple ctrls : 10
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0x53080000 irq 17'
Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 0b HDMI/DP'
Components : 'HDA:10de000b,10de0101,00100200'
Controls : 16
Simple ctrls : 4
Date: Tue Oct 18 13:12:02 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=5146454f-5daf-4293-b07d-619e6b7a8816
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6510
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=8ba496ee-b35c-4ef3-917c-d6869b0ac641 ro quiet splash initcall_debug vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.60
SourcePackage: linux
StagingDrivers: brcmsmac brcmutil
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/20/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0N5KHN
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A03
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd11/20/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6510:pvr0001:rvnDellInc.:rn0N5KHN:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6510
dmi.product.version: 0001
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
Looks like the same issue as bug 887834.
@Jeff
Can you try the network-manager package in -proposed?