Comment 75 for bug 430809

Have you tried to upgrade your bios?
Latest version, for your notebook, is A04, as you can see on Dell
support site, while in your log i see that you have A00 version.
For my laptop, Vostro 1320, bios upgrade worked fine.

Federico

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Gaute <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry guys, but I seem to be having this exact problem in the released
> Karmic.
>
> Dell vostro 1520.
>
> Starting with hw switch off works fine.
>
> Exactly same crash of smbios-wireless-ctl  as in comment #56
> ( posted as Bug #464449 )
>
> Perhaps just need to blacklist vostro 1520 ?
> Haven't looked into how that works yet.
>
> --
> [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430809
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in linux in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> It seems that this problem keeps reappearing. This is exactly the same as bug 193970, but opening a new bug since the first one is very big and noisy already.
>
> Summary: If I boot with the kill switch off (i. e. wifi enabled), the kill switch works just fine. But if I boot with kill switch on (i. e. wifi disabled), changing the kill switch doesn't do anything and network-manager keeps insisting that the network is disabled.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> AudioDevicesInUse:
>  USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>  /dev/snd/controlC1:  martin     2634 F.... pulseaudio
>  /dev/snd/controlC0:  martin     2634 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
>  Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xefebc000 irq 21'
>   Mixer name   : 'SigmaTel STAC9200'
>   Components   : 'HDA:83847690,10280201,00102201'
>   Controls      : 7
>   Simple ctrls  : 5
> Card1.Amixer.info:
>  Card hw:1 'Headset'/'Logitech Logitech USB Headset at usb-0000:00:1d.7-8.3.4, full speed'
>   Mixer name   : 'USB Mixer'
>   Components   : 'USB046d:0a01'
>   Controls      : 6
>   Simple ctrls  : 2
> CheckboxSubmission: 526c13623eeda7bcc3936c7be57b2d29
> CheckboxSystem: c8e8edcc4d15e0d55af04774be77e330
> Date: Wed Sep 16 17:49:06 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=5df2daed-eb83-4d60-a87c-9b71ff6b703f
> MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D430
> Package: linux-image-2.6.31-10-generic 2.6.31-10.32lp429241apw2
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic root=UUID=e43b0104-23d3-4bb8-9710-effa762ca2f6 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32lp429241apw2-generic
> RelatedPackageVersions:
>  linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-10-generic N/A
>  linux-firmware 1.18
> SourcePackage: linux
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
> dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2007
> dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: A00
> dmi.board.name: 0HU754
> dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.chassis.type: 8
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA00:bd05/21/2007:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD430:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HU754:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: Latitude D430
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>