Comment 55 for bug 430809

Daniel:

The return of the query of the HW switch status isn't returning anything
different in any of these scenarios:
00000000 00000010 00000011 00001101

Bit 16 indicates the status of the HW switch.

It's looking like there is 1 of two things going on here:

1) A bios bug w/ your laptop. Not much we can do from dell-laptop's
perspective
2) A return flag is failing that we're not checking for.

To rule out two, please run this command and provide the output, while the
switch is turned off:

sudo smbios-wireless-ctl --info

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:35, Daniel Cardin <email address hidden>wrote:

> The dmesg outputs are done on kernel 2.6.31-13 #45 with dell-laptop-dkms
> 0.3
>
> --
> [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling
> kill switch
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430809
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

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Mario Limonciello
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