Comment 18 for bug 1043403

I've tried adding 'pci=biosirq' to the boot options for linux via grub. I could not notice any change. What is it likely to affect? It still appears disabled.

$ sudo rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:10:60:67:0b:72
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=3.5.0-13-generic firmware=N/A latency=64 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:0 memory:ffff8000-ffffffff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 12
       bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 74
       serial: 00:40:d0:95:11:55
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.5.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.35 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:11 ioport:e200(size=256) memory:d0000000-d00000ff