Inspiron 13-7359: rfkill button has no effect

[David Henningsson]

Nothing happens when the button to enable/disable rfkill (a k a "airplane mode" or "wifi/bluetooth disable") is pressed.

Most other buttons seems to work according to evtest although some of them has no effect (and the "switch video mode" button generates Alt-P). Some of the buttons generate messages like:

[ 335.755925] dell_wmi: Unknown WMI event type 0x00: 0xe00c
[ 335.755928] dell_wmi: Unknown WMI event type 0x00: 0x3

...but the rfkill button is not one of them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.4.0-6-generic 4.4.0-6.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: david 1809 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Feb 23 15:26:41 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=fe528b90-b4eb-4a20-82bd-6a03b79cfb14
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-28 (87 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151127)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 13-7359
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-6-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=94d54f88-5d18-4e2b-960a-8717d6e618bb ro noprompt persistent quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-6-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-6-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.156
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/08/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 01.02.00
dmi.board.name: 0NT3WX
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr01.02.00:bd09/08/2015:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron13-7359:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NT3WX:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 13-7359
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Verified with mainline kernel 4.5.0-040500rc5-generic, problem present there as well.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Hi and thanks for spotting! My BIOS has been updated now.

1) Dmidecode now shows:

01.06.00
02/25/2016

2) The hotkey still does not work, but now there is a message in dmesg when you press it:

dell_wmi: Unknown key with scancode 0xe008 pressed

or

dell_wmi: Unknown key 0xe008 pressed

The former is with upstream 4.5rc5, the latter with Ubuntu's 4.4.0-11-generic.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

David Henningsson, the latest mainline kernel is 4.5-rc7. Could you please advise when using this?

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