Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
With My Inspiron 1501, I'm also seeing this bug where the wireless is hardblocked. To complicate matters, I'm having a problem in that the keycode for the wireless button [Fn-F2] isn't mapped.
Code:
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862248] kbd_keycode: 15 callbacks suppressed
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862257] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862296] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
Any suggestions?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chili555
With due respect to my colleagues, I think it's due to a poor implemetation of the module
dell-laptop. Please do:
If
dell-laptop is loaded, remove it:
Code:
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all
Is your wireless working now? If so, we'll need to blacklist
dell-laptop.
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
apwiggins
With My Inspiron 1501, I'm also seeing this bug where the wireless is hardblocked. To complicate matters, I'm having a problem in that the keycode for the wireless button [Fn-F2] isn't mapped.
Code:
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862248] kbd_keycode: 15 callbacks suppressed
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862257] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
May 10 17:14:51 ubuntu-dell kernel: [ 191.862296] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240
Any suggestions?
Did anything improve after you removed dell-laptop?
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Thanks for the pointer, but no, I have already removed it. No joy.
This is a real backward step from 10.10 and many previous versions on this Dell hardware. I recall having these kinds of keycode problems three or four years ago (7.04 or 7.10 IIRC) with an Acer laptop, but not with this hardware.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chili555
Did anything improve after you removed dell-laptop?
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
Question: Not to sure but is it removed? Looks like the command should be.
Code:
sudo rmmod -f dell_laptop
Well I thought it might not work BUT I was WRONG.... Checked it and sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
worked just fine...
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Well I thought it might not work BUT I was WRONG.... Checked it and sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
worked just fine...
Meaning the wireless works just fine without dell-laptop? If so, we can blacklist it.
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chili555
Meaning the wireless works just fine without dell-laptop? If so, we can blacklist it.
That seems logical to me... However I just removed the module and then restarted it here.. It has no adverse effect on my laptop but I am not having the OP's issue. I was just curious as to what it might do.. :)
Let me rmmod it again and reboot .. Dang I like testing LOL
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
However I just removed the module and then restarted it here.
If you reboot, the rmmod disappears. I think you need to do:
Code:
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all
Do NOT reboot. Is your wireless working?
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chili555
If you reboot, the rmmod disappears. I think you need to do:
Code:
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all
Do NOT reboot. Is your wireless working?
chili555 I was just testing my laptop to see if it would reboot after blacklisting the dell_laptop module. And yes it did without any rfkill commands.
lsmod | grep dell
Code:
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$ lsmod | grep dell
dell_wmi 12601 0
sparse_keymap 13666 1 dell_wmi
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chili555
If you reboot, the rmmod disappears. I think you need to do:
Code:
sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all
Do NOT reboot. Is your wireless working?
Wow thanks man! This fixed it for me!
Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04
Quote:
Originally Posted by
L33T17
Wow thanks man! This fixed it for me!
If you want to make it permanent, do:
Code:
sudo su
echo "blacklist dell-laptop" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit