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Ciprian Enache (ciprian-enache) wrote :

I have a Dell Latitude E6400 with a rfkill switch on the right side of the laptop. Wireless RFKILL defaults to on (wireless off) and can't be turned off.

I'm running:
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:39:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

You can see here that dell-wifi / dell-bluetooth default to Hard blocked:yes. I actually have just the physical switch listed as phy0 correctly shown with Hard blocked: no.

cenache@ubuntu:~$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
2: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

When I change the state of the physical switch both the dell-wifi and phy0 change state - but my wireless is still disabled.

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

Seems to be fixed in 2.6.32 - rfkill is still listing 2 switches, but they are in sync and my WiFi works.

Best regards,
Cip