[DONE] RFKILL wireless issue

[badbetty]

Hello folks

compaq nc6400 running mageia3
resinstalled mageia from dvd and on each reinstall wifi seems ok and works as it should (well i think it does.. im brain dead now after all the effort so far).
once the packages are updated to latest, the problems start to arise.

in addition, other distros ive tried appear ok (lubuntu, suse) and dont cause/experience a problem

so, for some reason on a reboot the wireless refuses to come up. once RFKILL unblock wifi is run, it jolts back into life.

RFKILL list all shows hardblocked as yes on each reboot and mageia seems unable to start it up without doing an RFKILL dance.

as i say, other distros have restarted it ok without the RFKILL.

so questions... is this a bug somewhere thats been reported (sorr i dont know where to check) ?

if not a bug, why is this happening and is there anything else i can check/do ?

is it possible to load a binary of rfkill form another distro to see if it is mageia rfkill causing probs... if so how to do this ?

this is the only laptop/mageia combo ive struggled with.... all others (i run mageia on everything) are fine!

happy new year wishes.

[badbetty]

sorted.... sort of.

switched to using networkmanger (not nm-applet) and it seems to have sortd itself!

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks