Bug 12544

Summary: No WiFi on HP Elitebook (intel 5300 iwlwifi)
Product: Mageia Reporter: Sorin Toma <sorin>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: linux, olivier, tmb
Version: 4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sorin Toma 2014-02-03 01:33:33 CET
The rfkill shows all devices "Hard blocked: yes" and touching the "hardware touch button" does not turn it on, blacklisting hp-wmi didn't help, nor forcing the module "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1", but after an "rfkill unblock all" it starts working, so as an workaround I've added "/usr/bin/rfkill unblock all" into the /etc/init.d/network-up at the beginning. 
It's far from being a pretty solution, but I don't have something else for the moment ant this one works, maybe someone with a little more time on the hand will take over.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Manuel Hiebel 2014-02-03 16:55:10 CET

CC: (none) => tmb

psyca 2014-02-06 21:26:57 CET

CC: (none) => fx

Comment 1 Olivier FAURAX 2014-11-21 13:46:07 CET
Thanks for the workaround, it's greatly appreciated.
Perhaps what is missing is configuring the "hardware touch button" to pilot rfkill.
Are you able to test this with beta liveCD of Mageia 5?

CC: (none) => olivier

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:20:08 CEST
Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

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Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2015-10-27 06:57:25 CET
As announced over a month ago, Mageia 4 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-09-19. It is is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD