Dell-laptop is not working without wireless

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Aug 18 2009 - 01:33:07 EST


Matthew,

Not sure if this has already been reported, but here it goes:

dell-laptop module does not work on my Latitude d630 unless driver for
my wireless card (which happens to be iwl3945) is already loaded.
Otherwise dcsbas_smi_request() returns all zeroes which causes
dell-laptop to not create any rfkill devices nor install backlight
device:

[ 766.262842] dell-laptop: dell_setup_rfkill() - 0, 0, 0, 0
[ 766.263087] dell-laptop: max intensity is 0
[ 780.388460] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network
Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds
[ 780.388464] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
[ 780.388584] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
IRQ 17
[ 780.388605] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 780.446318] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels
[ 780.446322] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link
3945ABG
[ 780.446474] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 780.451713] phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[ 785.216846] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting
iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
[ 785.233257] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.32.2.9
[ 785.303299] Registered led device: iwl-phy1::radio
[ 785.303445] Registered led device: iwl-phy1::assoc
[ 785.303522] Registered led device: iwl-phy1::RX
[ 785.303597] Registered led device: iwl-phy1::TX
[ 799.213373] dell-laptop: dell_setup_rfkill() - 0, 1031f, 100, 1
[ 799.213383] dell-laptop: setting up dell-wifi rfkill
[ 799.213971] dell-laptop: setting up dell-bluetooth rfkill
[ 799.214726] dell-laptop: max intensity is 7

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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