Miho:/home/david# rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Miho:/home/david#
When I turn off the Wifi using the network-manager-kde tool, rfkill then
shows this:
Miho:/home/david# rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
Miho:/home/david#
At which point, neither the network-manager-kde tool, nor the wifi hardware
switch on the laptop is able to turn
the wifi back on. The "enable wireless" is disabled / greyed out in the
network-manager-kde tool because it
thinks the wifi is hardware blocked when it isn't. rfkill also shows the
wifi as hard blocked. However, using rfkill unblock all results in this:
Miho:/home/david# rfkill unblock all
Miho:/home/david# rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Miho:/home/david#
I can then turn the wifi on again in network-manager-kde and connect to a
network in the network-manager-kde tool because it thinks the wifi is no
longer hardware blocked.
Again, booting the kernel with ACPI=off, this whole problem just goes away
and I have only one wireless lan device which I can control freely with
network-manager-kde without having to keep calling "rfkill unblock all"
everytime I turn off the wireless with software.
