b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button

[Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>]

Hello wireless-linux experts,

I have installed yesterday the last opensuse 11.3 rc4 on a
hp pavilion dv6-1300sb laptop which is has a

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

as wireless chip.

I needed to install such a bleeding edge distro because opensuse 11.2 does
not have the lp_phy driver yet.

with dmesg, I see :

[   21.818415] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode15.fw
[   21.820519] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
[   21.823084] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
[   21.975380] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 478.104 (2008-07-01 00:50:23)
[   22.076456] b43-phy0: Radio hardware status changed to DISABLED
[   22.077743] b43-phy0: Radio turned on by software
[   22.077747] b43-phy0: The hardware RF-kill button still turns the radio physically off. Press the button to turn it on.
[   22.078413] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

this is confirmed by rfkill :

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

BUT, I DON'T SEE A HARDWARE RF-KILL button;  I only see a red-lighted wireless
symbol, which is also a touch-key; in console mode, when I touch this
touch-key I get a message asking me to

	'setkey e014 <keycode>'

I have already seen this symbol being blue-lighted in the first seconds of
linux booting, but I don't know what changes this color or if this has
an effect on the 'hardware' RF-kill button.  In the BIOS there is no option
to enable or disable the wireless interface.

Any hint ?

Thanks already for the good work so far

Philippe