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FS#17373 - [hal] and rfkill (wifi problem)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Chapuis (catwell) - Friday, 04 December 2009, 10:34 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

On a Dell Latitude D430 (wifi driver: iwl3945):

[10:26 TA|catwell]! ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

A search on Google / forums / etc pointed me to a rfkill problem and I fixed it by copying /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-rfkill-switch.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy, but shouldn't this work out of the box?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 10:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Networkmanager doesn't use hal anymore.
Comment by Clemens Brandstetter (clementis) - Monday, 03 May 2010, 23:29 GMT
I got this message in /var/log/errors.log
<code>
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> Found wlan radio killswitch rfkill2 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver <unknown>)
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> Found wlan radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/platform/dell-laptop/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver dell-laptop)
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> WiFi disabled by radio killswitch; disabled by state file
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'e1000e')
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now managed
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): bringing up device.
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: Added default wired connection 'Auto eth0' for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/net/eth0
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'iwlagn')
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): now managed
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
May 1 19:11:05 doux NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
</code>

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