Showing posts with label wireless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wireless. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Enabling wireless lan on Thinkpad E420 with Fedora 15

Have installed Fedora 15 on my new notebook, Thinkpad E420. After powering on first time, I found that wireless network is not working. In the system messages, it seems that it is blocked by rfkill signal though I tried to turn on wireless lan adaptor.
After hours of investigation, I have found that "acer_wmi" kernel module which I think I don't require is loaded and sending blocking signal. "modprobe -r acer_wmi" command removes acer_wmi module and it works. To apply "modeprobe -r acer_wmi" command permanently, I plased the command in rc.local startup script.
Now wireless network works fine. It's great.