Re: Question about

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:29 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 03/13/2011 11:22 AM, José Queiroz wrote:
>> > Hi Larry,
>> >
>> > Are you using a Dell laptop? A recent kernel change broke the WMI support to
>> > some dell hardware. If it's your case, try blacklisting dell-laptop modules and
>> > reseting your machine.
>>
>> No, this is an HP. I am not loading any wmi modules.
>>
>> One more piece of info. As I said earlier, switching from knetworkmanager to the
>> plasmoid allowed it to work. I then switched back to knetworkmanager (I like it
>> better), and wireless still worked.
>>
>> Larry
>
> There are two blocks to wifi in 0.8.2 and later: rfkill, and user
> preference as controlled by the "Wireless Enabled" checkbox; I'm not
> sure where that lives in the KDE bits, but it's there.  They are
> completely independent at this time, but if either one is blocking the
> radio NM will say wifi is off.  If you look
> at /var/log/messages, /var/log/daemon.log,
> or /var/log/NetworkManager.log (depending on your distro) you'll see
> lines about both rfkill and the wifi state that should tell you what's
> going on.
>

The bug in KDE networkmnagement applet where it would disable wireless
in response to NM signal after rfkill (thus making appear as if coming
from user) is fixed in current GIT.