[Bug 916410] Re: HP 6540B soft wireless switch not working

[Ian Booth]

I just updated all my packages and there was a new rfkill included
(version 0.4-1ubuntu1).

I'm pleased to say that the wifi softswitch now works :-) Thanks!
Pressing the switch toggles both wifi and bluetooth on/off.

There's still a small issue: if I use the bluetooth indicator applet to
turn bluetooth off, the softswitch light goes orange when it should stay
blue since wifi is still enabled.

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Title:
  HP 6540B soft wireless switch not working

Status in “acpi-support” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  There are two issues:

  1. Bug 914838
  The softkey is unmapped

  2. The softkey, after being maped, does not do anything.

  In oneiric, this was solved by manually installing the urfkill
  package. However, after upgrading to precise, it no longer works.

  Even when it was working in oneiric, there was a small issue. The HP
  laptop docs say that if any wireless device (wifi or  bluetooth) is
  active, the softkey light should be blue, and in Windows it works this
  way. However, in oneiric, using the bluetooth indicator applet to turn
  off just bluetooth makes the light orange (disabled) even though
  wireless is still active. The reason is as follows:

   'rfkill list' shows 2 bluetooth devices:

  ian at wallyworld:/etc$ rfkill list
  0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  3: phy1: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  16: hci0: Bluetooth
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no

  The bluetooth indicator applet does a 'rfkill block 1'. What it needs
  to do instead is 'rfkill block 16'. If I do this manually, this stops
  bluetooth (and even the bluetooth indicator goes grey as expected),
  but it correctly leaves the soft key light blue because wireless is
  still working.

  ian at wallyworld:/etc$ sudo rfkill block 16
  ian at wallyworld:/etc$ rfkill list
  0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  3: phy1: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: no
  16: hci0: Bluetooth
          Soft blocked: yes
          Hard blocked: no

  Sadly, each time bluctooth is toggled on/off, the item number for
  hci0:bluetooth increments by one, so the next time it would need to do
  a rfkill block 17 etc.

  Ideally, the bluetooth indicator on/off would toggle the
  hci0:bluetooth device and then everything would be as expected.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: acpi-support 0.138
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jan 14 18:06:22 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
  SourcePackage: acpi-support
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-13 (0 days ago)

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