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  1. Bug #1080045
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1080045

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Chris Bly (chrisblycsg) wrote :

This bug appears to be linked to combination of ATH5K driver and Atheros AR5007EG wifi card.

I swapped the wifi card from another netbook, An Atheros AR9285 model.
After power up it has ATH9K loaded instead of ATH5K.

The RFKILL LIST displays both soft and hard blocked as NO
Press the FN-F2 and Soft Blocked changes to YES a couple of seconds later Hard Blocked changes to YES also
Wireless is now disabled
press again and Soft Blocked returns to NO a couple of seconds later Hard Blocked changes to NO also
wireless connection is restored.

This is the expected operation

Putting the AR5007EG card back in returns laptop to faulty state of operation....