acer_wmi in Jaunty on Aspire One exposes non-functional (always disabled) rfkill device
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu Netbook Remix |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux (Fedora) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft | ||
Jaunty |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Andy Whitcroft |
Bug Description
Upgrading to Jaunty, I found that network-manager would no longer let me make any wireless connections - it turned out that it thought that a killswitch was triggered (in /var/log/
I discovered that the acer_wmi rfkill device in sysfs was reporting state="0" regardless what state the killswitch was actually in. Investigating the modules website at http://
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: linux-image-
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: linux
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
Changed in linux: | |
assignee: | canonical-kernel-team → apw |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux: | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Changed in linux (Fedora): | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
tags: | added: iso-testing |
Changed in linux (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Huh? Why does apport think my kernel isn't a genuine Ubuntu package? It _is_.