Regression of killswitch on Dell Vostro 1320

Bug #413236 reported by p3car
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linux-2.6 (Debian)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

In 9.04 an update of hal broke wlan on my Dell Vostro 1320. An update of hal solved the problem, but in 9.10 alpha 3 the problem appears again.

I'm not sure if the problem is exactly the same, but I'm also unsure of what information from logs to provide. If you can point me in the right direction I'd be happy to supply more information.

In 9.04 the command

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.GetPower

would return

method return sender=:1.0 -> dest=:1.75 reply_serial=2
   int32 0

but in 9.10 I get

Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetPower" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch" doesn't exist

I can scan the wireless network with sudo iwlist, so the driver is in place and working correctly.

When booting from a live CD the wireless works without any problem. Does the live CD check for the status of the kill switch?

p3car (peter-carlsson50)
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p3car (peter-carlsson50) wrote :

Output of rfkill:

peter@paddan2:~$ rfkill list
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
6: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

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TomasHermosilla (thermosilla) wrote : apport-collect data

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.30-generic-pae
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic-pae i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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TomasHermosilla (thermosilla) wrote : Dependencies.txt
tags: added: apport-collected
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p3car (peter-carlsson50) wrote :

An upgrade of the Bios on my Dell Vostro 1320 solved the problem.

Felix Geyer (debfx)
affects: hal (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in linux:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Felix Geyer (debfx) wrote :

The bios update didn't fix the problem completely for me:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14098#c5

Changed in linux-2.6 (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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