From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: rfkill Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:21:18 +0000 Message-ID: <45A5F6BE-DD72-4FE4-9F0A-B80A9C985160@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <4639465b-d23c-2a80-1b0c-d756ec09aace@rymes.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2058520769656731456==" List-Id: --===============2058520769656731456== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Tom, > On 16 Dec 2019, at 23:52, Tom Rymes wrote: >=20 > Folks, >=20 > I have been having this issue for quite some time, and though it isn't a ma= jor issue, it is keeping me from using some older hardware that is, due to th= e Intel vulnerabilities, perversely more secure (it's 32-bit). No, it is not. Loads of hardening features are limited in their effectiveness on 32 bit: https://blog.ipfire.org/post/32-bit-is-dead-long-live-32-bit > The long story short is that I have devices with wireless cards that use th= e b43 driver, and they refuse to come up because they see the rfkill switch a= s being on. These devices worked fine before Core 105 was released. Nothing w= e do seems to resolve this, and IPFire doesn't include the rfkill utility (it= does include the rfkill kernel module). >=20 > How difficult would it be to include the rfkill utility? That would allow m= e to use it to try and override the switch. >=20 > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/network/rfkill/ >=20 > Here's an old forum thread we posted when this became an issue back with co= re 105: https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?t=3D17398 >=20 > Tom >=20 > PS: After I wrote this, I downloaded an rfkill RPM for a different architec= ture and extracted the binaries. It runs and it allowed me to unblock the dev= ice and get it working. I do think it would be a helpful addition to the dist= ribution. I can package it for you. It is not using any other libraries, so it should b= e easy. But I am an an airport now, so cannot do it today :) -Michael --===============2058520769656731456==--