[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#487668: Bug#487668: [hal] Hal overrides/rewrites loading option for module iwl3945

[Michael Biebl]

severity 487668 normal
tags 487668 moreinfo
thanks

Valerio Passini wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11-2
> Severity: critical
> 
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> Dear Developers,
> 
> first of all I'm sorry to have send a messy bug report before (all the bug 
> report was contained in the mail object).
> Let's get to the point. I have a laptop (Acer 5920g) with an Intel integrated 
> wifi card (3945a/b/g). It works good with iwl3945 module. The state of this 
> wireless card is controlled by a button that is not an hardware switch. The 
> button can be pressed several times without changing the state of the card. I 
> have checked this using:
> cat /sys/module/iwl3945/drivers/pci\:iwl3945/0000\:06\:00.0/rf_kill (0/1 as 
> possible states)
> When I load the module the option is disable=0 (custom setup 
> in /etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945 file)
> Using kernel 2.6.24.x everything worked, i.e: the button switched the state of 
> the wireless card (on/off) at will.
> With kernel 2.6.25.x (custom and stock) the button is not recognized and what 
> is worse is that in certain conditions the module iwl3945 is loaded and 
> disabled. I think that the cause of this is hal. 

HAL itself doesn't load or unload any modules.
What exactly do you mean by "the module is disabled"?
Is this the rfkill_switch state? What exactly does this "disable=0" 
option do? Does the rfkill state work correctly under 2.6.25.x?

Do you also have network-manager running? NM checks the rfkill state, 
and if your driver is buggy and reports an incorrect state, this might 
be the real problem.

Michael
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