[Mageia-dev] kernel problem with wifi rfkill?

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Tue May 10 01:57:19 CEST 2011


'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 09/05/11 18:32 did gyre and gimble:
> mån 2011-05-09 klockan 20:05 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/05/11 17:58 did gyre and gimble:
>>> It seems (after a chat with upstream) that this patch may be the culprit:
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=commit;h=a3d77411e8b2ad661958c1fbee65beb476ec6d70
>>>
>>> It certainly sounds like it could be and may explain why you don't see
>>> it (if you don't have this module).
>>>
>>> I'll try blacklisting it to see if that helps....
>>
>> It does, so I think this patch is indeed to blame.
>>
> 
> Would you mind rebuilding a 2.6.38.5 kernel with that patch reverted,
> and verify without blacklisting that it works...
> 
> If you dont have time to build, let me know and I'll build a testkernel
> for you...

Not so much the time but rather the disk space... SSDs are fast but not
very big!!! :p

Col


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