iwm rfkill

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 00:57, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to get my laptop fully functional and one of the things that
> currently does not work as expected is a Wi-Fi / Radio special key.
> It seems to be handled fully in hardware (but not 100% sure), but when I press
> it only bluetooth is turned off, but Wi-Fi stays on.
>
> This is the hardware:
> iwm0: <Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 3168> mem 0xfe800000-0xfe801fff at device
> 0.0 on pci3
> iwm0: hw rev 0x220, fw ver 22.361476.0, address xx
>
> When I press the key I see these messages:
> iwm0: iwm_intr: rfkill switch, disabling interface
> ugen0.6: <vendor 0x8087 product 0x0aa7> at usbus0 (disconnected)
> ubt0: at uhub1, port 4, addr 5 (disconnected)
> ubt0: detached
>
> However, ifconfig still shows that wlan0 is UP and RUNNING and the traffic keeps
> flowing.
>
> So, it seems that the RF KILL bit gets set and it's detected by the driver, but
> whatever the driver does is not enough to turn off the Wi-Fi.
> Does anyone have any patches or suggestions or pointers (documentation, etc) ?

It should be pretty easy to hack in; look at what iwn does? It should
just do a software thing to disable the interface in software.



-adrian

>
> Thanks!
> --
> Andriy Gapon
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