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wireless is always disabled

WIFI is always considered disabled with this hardware, making networkmanager unusable.

Version: 1.14.4, 1.14.5-dev
Hardware: Lenovo Ideapad 530S-14ARR
Distro: arch
Kernel: 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH

How to reproduce:

  • Enable wireless with rfkill unblock wifi
  • Run nmcli radio to check wifi enabled state

Expected: WIFI is 'Enabled'
Actual: WIFI is 'Disabled'

The issue is always reproducible on this computer. This makes the wireless unusable with network manager, as it will refuse to list networks or connect. Using wpa_supplicant and dhcpd directly works without issue.

rfkill output with enabled wifi:

ID TYPE      DEVICE                 SOFT      HARD  
 1 wlan      ideapad_wlan      unblocked   blocked  
 2 bluetooth ideapad_bluetooth unblocked   blocked  
 3 wlan      phy0              unblocked unblocked  
 6 bluetooth hci0              unblocked unblocked

rfkill output with disabled wifi:

ID TYPE      DEVICE                 SOFT      HARD  
 1 wlan      ideapad_wlan        blocked   blocked  
 2 bluetooth ideapad_bluetooth unblocked   blocked  
 3 wlan      phy0                blocked unblocked  
 6 bluetooth hci0              unblocked unblocked

nmcli radio output:

WIFI-HW  WIFI      WWAN-HW  WWAN    
enabled  disabled  enabled  enabled

Relevant log:

okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1618] dns-mgr[0x55ff46efb900]: init: dns=default, rc-manager=symlink
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1628] rfkill1: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.3/PNP0C09:00/VPC2004:00/rfkill/rfkill1) (pl>
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1639] manager[0x55ff46ef1030]: rfkill: WiFi hardware radio set enabled
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1639] manager[0x55ff46ef1030]: rfkill: WWAN hardware radio set enabled
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1807] settings: Loaded settings plugin: NMSKeyfilePlugin (internal)
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1816] settings: Loaded settings plugin: NMSIbftPlugin ("/usr/lib/NetworkManager/1.14.4-1/libnm-settings-plugin-ibft.so")
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1828] manager: rfkill: WiFi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1829] manager: rfkill: WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
okt 25 15:54:00 wall-e NetworkManager[362]: <info>  [1540475640.1829] manager: Networking is enabled by state file

I am attaching a patch that fixes the issue for me. It just ignores "platform rfkill devices" when determining the killswitch state. ignore-platform-devices.diff

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