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[Matthew Lai <cyberfish@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have the laptop with me now so I can't test, but,

ath9k? I thought these machines all have the Intel wireless card (since 
they are Centrino),

and use the iwlagn driver.

For me, the killswitch always works perfectly (just that it defaults to 
off on every boot).


elijah wrote:
> turning off the radio killswitch
> ---------------------------------
>
> After a lot of experimentation this seems to work to enable wifi:
>
> (run as root)
>
> rfkill block 0
> rfkill block 1
> rfkill unblock 1
>
> I am keen on being able to turn the wifi on and off with software. About
> half of the time I boot, physically pressing the wifi killswitch has no
> effect whatsoever (I feel like a monkey, pressing the button, waiting,
> pressing again, repeat).
>
> My guess is that there is a bug in the ath9k driver that does not let
> the killswitch be turned off until it has been turned on.
>
> Has anyone else had success with the killswitch? Next, I would like to
> bind this to one of the Fn keys.
>
> stuff that has not worked for me
> --------------------------------
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/rfkill/rfkill0/state
> rfkill unblock all
> rfkill unblock wifi
> sudo modprobe -r -f ath9k
> sudo modprobe ath9k
>
> useful diagnostics
> --------------------
>
> tail /sys/class/rfkill/*/{state,name,type,persistent}
> rfkill list
>
> -elijah
>
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