I have installed openSUSE 11.1 on an Acer Aspire One A150 for my mother. Wireless was working initially, but now NetworkManager always says Wireless Disabled.
The ath5k module is loaded, and there don’t appear to be any error messages, but iwconfig and iwlist show that the wireless card is powered off. I believe this is due to the physical kill switch. However, sliding the switch over doesn’t appear to do anything. Using Google I see other people have had this problem. How can I reset the switch? It seems to default to disabled. Do I need to configure the switch in Xorg somehow?
I keep checking /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state and that file always reads 0, which tells rfkill to kill wireless. Even if I edit as root, and change the file to read 1, it changes back to 0 moments later.
Something keeps setting this to 0 and effectively killing wireless.
enderandrew wrote:
> Anyone?
>
> I keep checking /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state and that file always
> reads 0, which tells rfkill to kill wireless. Even if I edit as root,
> and change the file to read 1, it changes back to 0 moments later.
>
> Something keeps setting this to 0 and effectively killing wireless.
The rfkill subsystem is polling the hardware switch and setting the state the
way it is supposed to. You need to change the switch setting.
there is a bit of a hole in that however because his original post states he has tried both positions for the physical switch meaning its automatically polling it as disabled no matter what the switch is actually set for. maybe a way to keep it from automatically polling? just kinda spit balling here as hardware polling isn’t my area of expertise.
entreatos wrote:
>
> there is a bit of a hole in that however because his original post
> states he has tried both positions for the physical switch meaning its
> automatically polling it as disabled no matter what the switch is
> actually set for. maybe a way to keep it from automatically polling?
> just kinda spit balling here as hardware polling isn’t my area of
> expertise.
If rfkill is buggy on that laptop, he could delete rfkill.ko, which would keep
it from loading. That might work.
A second option is to install the 2.6.29 kernel that is available on one of the
repos. I’m not sure which one. There has been considerable work on the rfkill
code. There is even more in 2.6.30-rc3, but the user might not want to go there.
The OP could also build a custom kernel with rfkill deselected from the
configuration.
I did try the 2.6.27 and 2.6.29 kernels. I might try a custom kernel build. I’ve found configs online specifically made/optimized for the Acer Aspire One.
enderandrew wrote:
> I did try the 2.6.27 and 2.6.29 kernels. I might try a custom kernel
> build. I’ve found configs online specifically made/optimized for the
> Acer Aspire One.
Do you have the acer-wmi module installed? That might be the code piecr that
deals with that switch.
hello friends!!
I would like to state that hi i was wondering if any work has been done to enable the wifi led and (mcdst)
wifi kill switch on the acer aspire one 150? if there hasn’t i’m willing
to offer my help (well i mean my aspire one more than my help as i’m not
too great at coding lol) in any way i can to get this worked out