Package: firmware-ralink
Version: 0.27
Severity: important

After a safe-upgrade on my testing system on 2010-10-23, when the system starts
with the wireless function button powered off in my laptop, the network
interface appears disabled, and it's impossible to enable it.

If the system starts with the wireless function button powered on, the network
interface works normally, and you can enable and disable it powered on and off
the wireless function button.

This is the output of "lshw" about mi wireless card:

# lshw -C network
PCI (sysfs)

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2500 802.11g
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:05:09.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:13:d3:7c:99:59
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2500pci latency=64 multicast=yes
wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:16 memory:feafa000-feafbfff



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

firmware-ralink depends on no packages.

firmware-ralink recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-ralink suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.98.5 tools for generating an initramfs
ii linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 [lin 2.6.32-9 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 [lin 2.6.32-26 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs

-- no debconf information



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Hi,

David Sánchez Herrero wrote:

> when the system starts
> with the wireless function button powered off in my laptop, the network
> interface appears disabled, and it's impossible to enable it.

Sounds like a missing rfkill driver. Please provide full output from
"dmesg" immediately after booting, "lspci -vvnn", "lsmod",
"grep . /sys/class/dmi/id/*_{vendor,name,version}", and "acpidump" as
attachments.

Sorry for the slow response,
Jonathan



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Hi Jonathan,

The laptop with this issue is dead, so don't worry. I can't remember the details, but I think I solved this problem, althought I don't know how exactly.
It doesn't matter now, so you can mark this bug as closed.


Thank you very much, David.

tags 601976 + unreproducible
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David Sanchez Herrero wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> The laptop with this issue is dead, so don't worry.

Drat. Do you remember the make and model of the laptop?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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Hi again,

Of course I remember. It was a "Targa", model "Traveller 1576 X2". If you need more details about the hardware, I have all the manuals yet.

Greetings, David.