Steve, sorry for not providing more details. Since I was seeing the
exact same symptoms on my machine, I simply assumed I had the same bug.
Particularly since the kernel part supposedly causing the issue is the
platform independent rfkill module (as per LP #397698).

I'll try to give some more details here, and if you still think I have a
different bug, let me know and I'll just go away.

In jaunty, the state of my bluetooth and wlan device, were controlled by
means of /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/bluetooth, and
/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rfkill/*/state, respectively. In Karmic,
they're both controlled by means of "/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill*/state".

Now, in Jaunty pressing Fn+F2 (which corresponds to Fn+F5 on the
thinkpad) cycles the different possible states of bt+wlan. In Karmic,
however, bt+wlan are turned off simultaneously. What's peculiar is that
when FN+F2 toggles the radio devices to off, the
/sys/class/rfkill/rfkillX that corresponds to the bluetooth device is
removed (leaving me with just one rfkill device), and when it's toggled
back on, the bluetooth-rfkill device comes back but, but this time named
rfkillX+1 (that is rfkill1, becomes rfkill2, next time around rfkill3,
etc.)

All this is being done with acpi-support stopped, which means (if I'm
not misunderstanding anything here), that none of the platform specific
scripts in /etc/acpi/* are run.

Likewise, I can't change the value of /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill*/state
manually.

Shouldn't hal be in charge of hotkeys nowadays, instead of acpi-support?
If I don't misremember this, hal doesn't know how to cycle states, but
rather changes the state of bt+wlan the way described here.

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thinkpad fn+f5 regression now toggles wifi and bluetooth at once
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