Re: hp-wmi: disabling Bluetooth also kills WiFi

From: joeyli
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 05:05:01 EST


Hi Milan,

æ äï2012-01-04 æ 10:41 +0100ïMilan Bouchet-Valat æåï
> Hi!
>
> (I asked before on linux-bluetooth, but I was said hp-wmi developers
> didn't hang there... Hope this is the right place.)
>
> With kernels 3.1 and 3.2rc7, disabling Bluetooth via rfkill also disables
> my wireless card on my HP Pavilion dm4. This didn't happen with 2.6.41
> (I upgraded from Fedora 15 to 16).
>
> My devices are set up as this (see attached output of lspci -vnn for
> details about devices):
> # rfkill list
> 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> 2: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> 3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
> 11: hci0: Bluetooth
> Soft blocked: no
> Hard blocked: no
>
> The problem is, these commands also stop the WiFi:
> rfkill block bluetooth
> and
> rfkill block 3 [for hp-bluetooth]
>
> But this one only kills the Bluetooth:
> rfkill block 11
>
>
> Running
> rfkill block wifi
> does kill the WiFi, but leaves the Bluetooth up.
>
>
> (If it matters, running 'rfkill block bluetooth' makes hci0 disappear,
> and after unblocking bluetooth, it reappears with the ID increased by 1.
> This doesn't happen with the WiFi.)
>
>
> Please ask if I can provide more information/testing.
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> PS : Please keep me in CC: as I'm not subscribed to the list.

Please provide dmesg, acpidump and dmidecode, run the following command
and attached on mail:
dmesg > dmesg.log
acpidump > acpidump.dat
dmidecode > dmidecode.log


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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