rfkill

[Tom Rymes <trymes@rymes.com>]

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Folks,

I have been having this issue for quite some time, and though it isn't a 
major issue, it is keeping me from using some older hardware that is, 
due to the Intel vulnerabilities, perversely more secure (it's 32-bit).

The long story short is that I have devices with wireless cards that use 
the b43 driver, and they refuse to come up because they see the rfkill 
switch as being on. These devices worked fine before Core 105 was 
released. Nothing we do seems to resolve this, and IPFire doesn't 
include the rfkill utility (it does include the rfkill kernel module).

How difficult would it be to include the rfkill utility? That would 
allow me to use it to try and override the switch.

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/network/rfkill/

Here's an old forum thread we posted when this became an issue back with 
core 105: https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?t=17398

Tom

PS: After I wrote this, I downloaded an rfkill RPM for a different 
architecture and extracted the binaries. It runs and it allowed me to 
unblock the device and get it working. I do think it would be a helpful 
addition to the distribution.