From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:10:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB1335F.7030306@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100329201236.GA9587@frolo.macqel>
On 03/29/2010 03:12 PM, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> 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
Is the module hp-wmi loaded? That module is designed to implement all of the
special keys for HP laptops.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 20:12 b43 'hardware blocked' but only keyboard/led touch button Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-29 23:10 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-03-30 7:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 16:47 ` Dan Williams
2010-03-30 17:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 19:26 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 19:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:00 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-03-30 20:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-03-30 20:43 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 11:53 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 14:51 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-19 15:00 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-19 15:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 5:42 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 15:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-24 19:56 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-24 20:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-25 19:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2010-04-25 20:11 ` Larry Finger
2010-05-01 12:17 ` BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) dma & led problems Philippe De Muyter
2010-05-01 16:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
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