Bugzilla – Bug 1213446
connecting dock station network enables wifi - reverse behaviour
Last modified: 2023-08-07 08:58:04 UTC
On Dell XPS 9700 I have a Dell WD19 dock. It used to work fine. Now when I have e dock station connected with the cable there WIFI is disabled as it should When I unplug Ethernet cable from the dock the wifi remains OFF and RFKILL shows hard block. When I plug the Ethernet cable back to the dock the wifi comes up for 2-3 seconds and sets up a connection and then I get e message that wifi gets disabled and connection is switched back to Ethernet. It used to work fine that unplugging the cable from dock would bring the wifi up. So having a dock station it is not possible to disconnect its ethernet and have laptop enable Wifi. It works ok in Ubuntu.
(In reply to Sebastian Turzański from comment #0) > It used to work fine. Do you know when it worked? You can find some old TW kernel packages from TW history repo http://download.opensuse.org/history/ and you can install with zypper install --oldpackage option, and test with it. If it's a kernel regression from 6.3 to 6.4, check the behavior with the latest kernel in OBS Kernel:stable and 6.5-rc kernel in OBS Kernel:HEAD. If none works, we should report the bug to the upstream. If 6.3.x kernel also shows the problem, you can try my old kernel packages in OBS, e.g. OBS home:tiwai:kernel:6.2, home:tiwai:kernel:6.1, etc. Note that those are unofficial builds, hence you'd need to turn off Secure Boot.