Comment 5 for bug 464740

I am on rev A02. May be I need to upgrade to A03 or whichever is the latest.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:40 AM, p3car <email address hidden> wrote:
> What bios version are you on? When I upgraded to rev A03 my wireless problems with the killswitch disappeared.
> I think the current version from Dell is now rev A04
>
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> Dell Vostro 1320: Weird behaviour of wireless switch
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464740
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> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10(final release) on Dell Vostro 1320. Ubuntu is responding in a very weird manner to the wireless switch toggle.
>
> If I log into Ubuntu with wireless switched off and if I switch on the wireless after logging in, everything works properly. (Except that it shows a crash report. But, still everything works)
>
> If I log into Ubuntu with wireless switched on, it detects wireless as disabled. Then, if I go ahead and switch off the wireless, it thinks wireless has been switched on and starts searching for available wireless connections.(At this point also it shows crash report.) It can list down all the available wireless connections; But, can not connect to any of them.
>
> Hence, to get wireless working, every time, I have to switch off wireless before logging into the system and then, switch it on.
>
> ProblemType: KernelOops
> Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
> AplayDevices:
>  **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
>  card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Architecture: i386
> ArecordDevices:
>  **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>  card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>   Subdevices: 2/2
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> AudioDevicesInUse:
>  USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>  /dev/snd/controlC0:  mayuresh   1691 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
>  Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6500000 irq 22'
>   Mixer name   : 'IDT 92HD81B1C5'
>   Components   : 'HDA:111d76d5,102802bb,00100302'
>   Controls      : 26
>   Simple ctrls  : 16
> Date: Fri Oct 30 08:27:05 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Failure: oops
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b0b5f3be-9239-41c2-8924-da2a76753416
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro 1320
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Package: linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic 2.6.31-14.48
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=faab5b42-d75e-4323-989f-072b148a9497 ro quiet splash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
>  linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-14-generic N/A
>  linux-firmware 1.24
> SourcePackage: linux
> Tags: kernel-oops
> Title: BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x10010000
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
> dmi.bios.date: 04/08/2009
> dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: A02
> dmi.board.name: 0T052J
> dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.chassis.type: 8
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd04/08/2009:svnDellInc.:pnVostro1320:pvrNull:rvnDellInc.:rn0T052J:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: Vostro 1320
> dmi.product.version: Null
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>