Comment 38 for bug 875659

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Hansen (moteprime) wrote : Re: RT3090 wireless conflict with acer_wmi

Hi Ike Panhc.
I will answer your two questions with two posts, as it will require some installation and rebooting.

uname -a
Linux mads-Ideapad-S205 3.0.0-13-generic #22lp875659 SMP Tue Nov 22 03:27:00 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hardware switch ON. (after boot up)
rfkill list
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no

Hardware switch (Fn+F5) OFF
rfkill list
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

Please note that hardware LED indicator does remains ON, so I cannot see the setting. But I have tried shutting down, restarting and testing again three times.