On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 06:11:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > It could be that hp-wmi doesn't have support for these models yet, or
> > that the dv6-1300sb is simply completely different.  But for example, on
> > my Elitebook 2530p, there's a softswitch that pokes BIOS, and when BIOS
> > is softkilled, the onboard wifi becomes hardkilled.  To unkill, I need
> > to unblock BIOS, which then either unblocks wifi, or turns the wifi
> > hardkill into a softkill.  Convoluted.
> 
> Yeah. I'd be interested in seeing the output of acpidump on this 
> machine, but right now it sounds like b43 is behaving correctly - the 
> fact that the light is out implies that the bios is killing it.

Here you are :

linux-vcsl:~ # acpidump > /tmp/acpidump.out
Wrong checksum for DSDT!
Wrong checksum for SLIC
Wrong checksum for SSDT
Wrong checksum for DSDT!
Wrong checksum for SLIC!
Wrong checksum for SSDT!

acpidump.out is attached (tar-compressed)

I must also add that I currently cannot boot without acpi=off

Philippe
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