HP g60 wireless issue

[baldy4eva]

I have an HP g60 running a vanilla Maverick installation, and the wifi has cease working. I've tried booting while pressing the switch and various other combinations of switch presses, but nothing is seeming to work.

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off


$ rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
$ rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

Any help would be much appreciated

[baldy4eva]

Just need to add that I was getting a n output of udevd-work [???] open /dev/null during boot a couple of times before the wireless gave up. The question marks were 3 different numbers each time. Since the wireless has stopped working, I'm not seeing this.

[chili555]

Does the wireless switch turn the LED on and off? Is the module hp-wmi loaded?

lsmod | grep wmi

May I see your dmesg, please?

dmesg > dmesg.txt
zip dmesg.zip dmesg.txt

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Please see attached.

[baldy4eva]

The LED is built into the button. During boot, it's Orange, and once I reach login, it turns Blue. pressing the button doesn't change the colour or seem to affect it in any way.

 ~$ lsmod | grep wmi
snd_rawmidi            22207  2 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq_midi
hp_wmi                  6435  0 
snd_seq_device          6912  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    64117  18 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

Looks like the hp-wmi isn't being loaded


Please find dmesg.zip attached as requested and, thanks

[chili555]

I don't see anything obviously amiss in your dmesg. Let's see if removing hp_wmi has any effect:

rfkill list all
sudo rmmod -f hp_wmi
rfkill list all

Thanks.

[baldy4eva]

output after a reboot is

$ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no

But even after that, wireless is greyed out in network manager. Tried holding the button on a reboot too