[Bug 628433] [NEW] Acer TravelMate 290 cannot activate wireless card from cold boot

[mjw99]

Public bug reported:

The Acer TravelMate 290 requires the user to initially boot into WinXP
and use the wireless card before warm rebooting into Ubunut 10.04.1 i386
Desktop to active the wireless card. I think the root cause of this is
the physical Radio Frequency Kill Switch. In both tests the switch is
set to enable the wireless card; for some reason on a cold boot, linux
*thinks* this is set to the disabled position:

Bad (10.04.1) Cold Boot
==================
[   72.049547] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[   72.049551] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   72.204576] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: ISA IRQ mask 0x0830, PCI irq 10
[   72.204581] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: Socket status: 30000006
[   72.204587] pci_bus 0000:02: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#02) from #02 to #06
[   72.204599] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xbfff
[   72.204604] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xbfff: clean.
[   72.205130] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff
[   72.205134] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:03.0: pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x90000000 - 0x9fffffff
[   72.205842] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[   72.205853] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[   72.205865] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   72.206897] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   72.206953] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[   73.666276] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[   73.666279] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[   73.667694] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)

Good (10.04.1) Warm Reboot from WinXP
===============================
[   73.782084] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[   73.782089] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[   73.782193] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[   73.782205] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
[   73.782217] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[   73.783154] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[   73.783210] ipw2200 0000:02:02.0: firmware: requesting ipw2200-bss.fw
[   75.204534] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[   75.316138] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x230-0x237


lshw data pertaining to the wireless card:

           *-network:1 DISABLED
                description: Wireless interface
                product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
                vendor: Intel Corporation
                physical id: 2
                bus info: pci at 0000:02:02.0
                logical name: eth1
                version: 05
                serial: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=128 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=radio off
                resources: irq:10 memory:d0000000-d0000fff

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: rfkill travelmate

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Acer TravelMate 290 cannot activate wireless card from cold boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628433
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