Inspiron 1018 F2 Key and RFKill

[Patrick Dignan]

The Dell Inspiron 1018 is no longer able to enable wireless. The F2 key does not disable rfkill as it should. I believe this is a regression since 10.04, since there was a patch related to this in that release. I will be installing with 10.04 and will be able to verify that this is in fact a regression shortly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic 2.6.35-24.42
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC272 Analog [ALC272 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC272 Analog [ALC272 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dignan 1477 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0300000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC272'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0272,1028048e,00100001'
   Controls : 11
   Simple ctrls : 6
Date: Wed Jan 5 00:52:04 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=75b17d4a-3304-41cf-903e-814a6a0cbf85
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1018
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-24-generic root=UUID=7807a6a5-f237-4444-af6a-baeaa177586e ro acpi_osi="!Windows 2009" quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 07/29/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A01
dmi.board.name: 0GHG2G
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A01
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA01:bd07/29/2010:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1018:pvrA01:rvnDellInc.:rn0GHG2G:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA01:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1018
dmi.product.version: A01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

reported as bug 698006. I will report my latter finding there.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

My bad. Please ignore the comment above. It is an embarrassing mistake.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

@Patrick

  Can you try if this driver fixes the bug: http://people.canonical.com/~lexical/bugs/lp697520/ ?
  Try with the following steps:

    make
    sudo rmmod dell_laptop
    sudo insmod ./dell-laptop.ko

[Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani)]

@Keng-Yü Lin,

Your patch works! Could you rebase and send upstream as soon as possible, please?

Please add this in your commit:
Tested-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <email address hidden>

Thanks a lot!

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

In Linux 2.6.38-rc6 now.

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

Fixed in linux (2.6.38-5.32) natty.

[Narendran Bhaskar (nbrockz)]

i also face the same problem. Mine is inspiron mini 1018. f2 key is not working and wireless netyworks have been disabled by hardware switch. i do not understand how to install the bug fix. please specify in laymans terms.