OK Guys thanks for the feedback. There's a few issues at hand here. Hopefully this should address everyone's concerns up this point.
1) As raised by Janne: this ignored the logic the BIOS had in place to make the HW switch only affect certain devices. 2) As raised by Daniel: the value getting read isn't reliably correct on business client machines. I looked more into this (with a Latitude 2100) and found that the wrong data was getting read for everyone. It was just dumb luck to work sometimes. I've added a second check in here. *----* I'm attaching a new deb. Lets call this "v5". So in this deb there are 3 new patches: only_my_switch.patch : addresses Janne's concern check_hw_sw_supported.patch: address Daniel's concern debug_support.patch: for in case someone else is still broke *----* If you are still having troubles, please do this: 1) Cold boot. Take note of whether the switch is flipped to block wifi/bt/wwan or to not block 2) Flip the switch on once 3) Count to 5 4) Flip the switch off once 5) Save "dmesg" output 6) Repeat 1-5 with the switch starting in the opposite state from cold boot I've tested this series of patches on the following machines with success: * Latitude 2100 * Studio XPS 1340 * Inspiron 1545 * Studio 1537 * Latitude D630 ** Attachment added: "dell-laptop-dkms_0.2_all.deb" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33562260/dell-laptop-dkms_0.2_all.deb -- [Dell Latitude D430, iwl3945] Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
