Comment 54 for bug 193970

This bug report unfortunately appears to have been co-opted for a couple different issues, spread across two releases. I'm going to focus here on the issues that apply to intrepid.

I've recently (post-beta) patched hal in intrepid to support the kernel's new generic rfkill interface, to address bug #267875 - I wasn't aware that this bug was also open at the time. Could the users who are seeing this problem please re-test with the latest hal package version to verify whether this problem is resolved for you? If there is really a bug in the kernel driver then of course it will not, but I haven't seen any bugs in the kernel driver here - the "bug" may simply be that the backported iwlwifi drivers were using the generic rfkill interface which wasn't supported yet in 2.6.24.