Hello,
I’m running 11.2(KDE 4.3.5) on an Aspire Timeline 4810T. From time to time it happens, that without apparent reason the wifi stops working. Following a tipp on some forum I installed rfkill.
Now, if I do
rfkill unblock all
it works again immediately. It is not a pressing problem as it can be dealt with immediately, but I’m curious. What might be the reason that the rfkill switch gets blocked seemingly randomly?
Some additional info:
# hwinfo --wlan
21: PCI 200.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4232
Unique ID: y9sn.4sCLS2kIqkC
Parent ID: qTvu.8Makl3iDVc3
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x4232 "Wireless WiFi Link 5100"
SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
SubDevice: pci 0x1301
Driver: "iwlagn"
Driver Modules: "iwlagn"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xd2400000-0xd2401fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 27 (no events)
HW Address: 00:22:fb:44:aa:d8
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 5.18 5.2 5.22 5.24 5.26 5.28 5.3 5.32 5.5 5.52 5.54 5.56 5.58 5.6 5.62 5.64 5.66 5.68 5.7
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00004232sv00008086sd00001301bc02sc80i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: iwlagn is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe iwlagn"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)
Thanks!