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    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 View Post
    With due respect to my colleagues, I think it's due to a poor implemetation of the module dell-laptop. Please do:
    Code:
    lsmod | grep dell
    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.

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by apwiggins View Post
    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?
    "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.

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    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 View Post
    Did anything improve after you removed dell-laptop?

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    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...
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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    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.
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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    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
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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    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?
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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    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
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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by chili555 View Post
    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!

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by L33T17 View Post
    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
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