[Mageia-dev] kernel problem with wifi rfkill?

Mon May 9 18:58:49 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 21/04/11 11:07 did gyre and gimble:
+> Colin Guthrie skrev 21.4.2011 12:56:
+>> Hiya,
+>>
+>> Since the last little while (I think since kernel 2.6.38) the rfkill
+>> switch on my laptop doesn't work too well.
+>>
+> [...]
+> 
+>> So I'm a little stumped.
+>>
+>> Anyone else get this problem?
+>>
+> 
+> Weird...
+> 
+>> iwlagn          : Intel Corporation|PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron]
+>> Network Connection [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:4229 subv:8086
+>> subd:1101) (rev: 61)
+>>
+> 
+> I have this same, I'll test tonight/tomorrow...
+> 
+>>
+>> I found this which seems like a likely candidate for a fix...
+>> http://ns.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg64176.html
+>>
+>> but it's from February... is it really not in the .38.x kernel yet??
+> 
+> That patch got merged in 2.6.38-rc1, so it is there.
+
+It seems (after a chat with upstream) that this patch may be the culprit:
+
+http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=commit;h=a3d77411e8b2ad661958c1fbee65beb476ec6d70
+
+It certainly sounds like it could be and may explain why you don't see
+it (if you don't have this module).
+
+I'll try blacklisting it to see if that helps....
+
+Col
+
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