[Bug 523143] Re: Wireless RFKILL defaults to on (wireless off) and can't be turned off.

[pcgaldo]

I have a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter and it
doesn't works after update to Lucid.

It works in Karmic and in Lucid, using the 2.6.31-21 kernel.

With the 2.6.32-22 and the 2.6.33-02063303 kernel versions it fails and
looking to the syslog, it's switched off:

May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041398] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x00
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041454] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041473] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.043255] rtl8187: wireless switch is off

rfkill reports that the device is harware blocked but my laptop doesn't
have a physical switch to control the wireless device.

I found a kernel bug that could be related to this problem:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14743

** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14743
   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14743

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Wireless RFKILL defaults to on (wireless off) and can't be turned off.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523143
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