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Bug 1338024 - rfkill hard-blocks wifi on HP 635 (Atheros wireless, ath9k/hp_wmi)
Summary: rfkill hard-blocks wifi on HP 635 (Atheros wireless, ath9k/hp_wmi)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1338025
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-05-20 18:59 UTC by samoht0
Modified: 2016-05-20 19:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-20 19:24:03 UTC
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Linux Kernel 69131 0 None None None 2016-05-20 18:59:27 UTC

Description samoht0 2016-05-20 18:59:28 UTC 
Description of problem:

Wifi hard blocked by rfkill on ath9k/hp_wmi kernel modules.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

4.4.10-200.fc22.x86_64
longtime bug, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954070

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.
Boot system. Wifi soft and hardware switch off.

2.
# rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes
...
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes

3.
Remove soft block and activate wifi hardware switch.

# rfkill list
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
...
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

Wifi don't work.

4.
Use /etc/modprobe.d/hp.conf to blacklist hp_wmi

5.
Reboot system. Wifi soft and hardware switch off.

6.
# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes
[no hp-wifi]

7.
Remove soft block and activate wifi hardware switch. 

# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
[no hp-wifi]

Wifi works.


Actual results:

Wifi blocked and hp_wmi need's to be blacklisted to use wifi.

Expected results:

Wifi working out of box.

Additional info:

Locks like this patch for hp_wmi fixed the issue for the testers, but didn't make it into mainline since March.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69131#c13

F23 and F24 should be affected too.
Comment 1 samoht0 2016-05-20 19:24:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1338025 ***
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