Dell Vostro 1720 wireless switch's state incorrect
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
hal (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
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/
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
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:2137): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(Do:2187): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_
follow bug 430809