[Mageia-dev] kernel problem with wifi rfkill?

Tue May 10 01:57:19 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 09/05/11 18:32 did gyre and gimble:
+> mån 2011-05-09 klockan 20:05 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/05/11 17:58 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> 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....
+>>
+>> It does, so I think this patch is indeed to blame.
+>>
+> 
+> Would you mind rebuilding a 2.6.38.5 kernel with that patch reverted,
+> and verify without blacklisting that it works...
+> 
+> If you dont have time to build, let me know and I'll build a testkernel
+> for you...
+
+Not so much the time but rather the disk space... SSDs are fast but not
+very big!!! :p
+
+Col
+
+
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