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[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 24 Sep 2009, Wayde wrote:
> 2. When i choose to enable/disable wifi for example the system hangs and i'm
> forced to do a hard reboot :(

That is bad, but really surprising.

> Is there any way to debug this issue and send you more informations about it

Can you do the following:

- go into /sys/class/rfkill
- type
	for i in */name ; do echo $i ; cat $i ; done
  end send me the output
- then search for "sony-wifi" in the list, say it is rfkill1 (could be
  some other index)
- then do cat rfkill1/state  (but change rfkill1 to the one for sony-wifi)
  and send me the output
- then do echo 1 > rfkill1/state (as root)

I have no idea why it hard hangs, that looks rather surprising...

Best wishes

Norbert

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