This patch fixes the problem encountered on many HP laptops: in some cases, WiFi becomes hard-blocked and cannot be unblocked since then. Seen that on HP 6730b and others. This is https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69131 diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c index 0669731..37000f0 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c @@ -714,6 +714,11 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(struct platform_device *device) if (err) return err; + err = hp_wmi_perform_query(HPWMI_WIRELESS_QUERY, 1, &wireless, + sizeof(wireless), 0); + if (err) + return err; + if (wireless & 0x1) { wifi_rfkill = rfkill_alloc("hp-wifi", &device->dev, RFKILL_TYPE_WLAN, @@ -901,7 +906,7 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_bios_setup(struct platform_device *device) wwan_rfkill = NULL; rfkill2_count = 0; - if (hp_wmi_bios_2009_later() || hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) + if (hp_wmi_rfkill_setup(device)) hp_wmi_rfkill2_setup(device); err = device_create_file(&device->dev, &dev_attr_display);