Re: [Libreboot] x200 wlan0 stays "Hard blocked"

[Stephen Soltesz]

Francis, good question; I had not. The wireless issue had my full
attention. But, I've reflashed with the correct MAC now. Thank you for
the tip.

By the way, do you know what causes the "ERASE FAILED!" message when
flashing an image?

The first time I flashed my system, this really worried me. But, it
seems to be non-fatal. What is actually going on? The "failed byte
count" seems to be different each time.

Thank you.

An example output from my last run of flashrom:

flashrom v0.9.7-r1858 on Linux 3.13.0-39-lowlatency (x86_64)
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org

Calibrating delay loop... OK.
coreboot table found at 0xbdaac000.
Found chipset "Intel ICH9M-E". Enabling flash write... OK.
Found Macronix flash chip "MX25L6405(D)" (8192 kB, SPI) mapped at
physical address 0x00000000ff800000.
Reading old flash chip contents... done.
Erasing and writing flash chip... FAILED at 0x00001000! Expected=0xff,
Found=0x00, failed byte count from 0x00000000-0x0000ffff: 0x9e3e
ERASE FAILED!
Reading current flash chip contents... done. Looking for another erase function.
Erase/write done.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM, The Gluglug <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi Stephen,
>
> Did you change the MAC address before flashing the new ROM image?
>
> If not, flash it again, with the correct MAC address based on these
> instructions:
> http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/x200_remove_me.html#ich9gen
>
> On the X200, the MAC address for the built-in ethernet chipset is
> stored in the flash chip. The default ROM images contain a generic MAC
> address just so that it will work, but you should use your own (your
> X200 will have come with a note containing the MAC address, and the
> same MAC address will also be printed on a sticker on the base of the
> machine near the VGA port, or underneath the 2nd RAM slot).
>
> Regards,
> Francis Rowe.
>
> On 10/03/15 02:26, Stephen Soltesz wrote:> Hi, all!
>>
>> I received my x200 last week from Francis and verified that
>> everything worked, including wireless networking. Since I am
>> accustomed to a US keyboard, I swapped my x200's UK keyboard for
>> one with a US layout. I made a backup of the libreboot rom[1] and
>> then flashed an updated libreboot rom[2] to default to the US
>> keymap (and still boot the preinstalled OS).
>>
>> But, after these steps, I noticed that the wireless card[3] was
>> stuck in a "hard blocked" state.
>>
>> $ rfkill list all 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard
>> blocked: yes
>>
>> The Fn+F5 keys on the x200 keyboard continues to toggle the Soft
>> blocked state, but I cannot reset the Hard blocked state after
>> reboot or any key combinations (apparently).
>>
>> So, I tried to restore the system to the its original state; I
>> swapping the keyboards again back to the UK layout, and then
>> reflashed the backup libreboot rom. Unfortunately, the wireless
>> card is still in a "Hard blocked" state and unusable.
>>
>> From your experiences, does it sound possible that the steps I
>> took have disabled the wireless card? Is there some initialization
>> that libreboot performs after first boot that I may have
>> accidentally wiped away? Is there a way to reenable the wireless
>> card?
>>
>> If more information would be helpful, I'm happy to provide it.
>>
>> Thank you so much, Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: flashrom -p internal -r libreboot.rom [2]: the binary builds
>> from
> https://ginette.swordarmor.fr/libreboot/20150208/
>> bin/x200_8mb/x200_8mb_usqwerty_vesafb.rom [3]: Qualcomm Atheros
>> AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) $ lshw  -C network
>> *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: AR9285
>> Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
>> physical id: 0 bus info: address@hidden:02:00.0 logical name: wlan0
>> version: 01 serial: 00:26:5e:4b:bd:3f width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz
>> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
>> physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k
>> driverversion=3.13.0-39-lowlatency firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no
>> multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:17
>> memory:e1500000-e150ffff
>>
>> [... eth0 snipped ...]
>>
>
>
> On 10/03/15 02:26, Stephen Soltesz wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> I received my x200 last week from Francis and verified that
>> everything worked, including wireless networking. Since I am
>> accustomed to a US keyboard, I swapped my x200's UK keyboard for
>> one with a US layout. I made a backup of the libreboot rom[1] and
>> then flashed an updated libreboot rom[2] to default to the US
>> keymap (and still boot the preinstalled OS).
>>
>> But, after these steps, I noticed that the wireless card[3] was
>> stuck in a "hard blocked" state.
>>
>> $ rfkill list all 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard
>> blocked: yes
>>
>> The Fn+F5 keys on the x200 keyboard continues to toggle the Soft
>> blocked state, but I cannot reset the Hard blocked state after
>> reboot or any key combinations (apparently).
>>
>> So, I tried to restore the system to the its original state; I
>> swapping the keyboards again back to the UK layout, and then
>> reflashed the backup libreboot rom. Unfortunately, the wireless
>> card is still in a "Hard blocked" state and unusable.
>>
>> From your experiences, does it sound possible that the steps I
>> took have disabled the wireless card? Is there some initialization
>> that libreboot performs after first boot that I may have
>> accidentally wiped away? Is there a way to reenable the wireless
>> card?
>>
>> If more information would be helpful, I'm happy to provide it.
>>
>> Thank you so much, Stephen
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: flashrom -p internal -r libreboot.rom [2]: the binary builds
>> from https://ginette.swordarmor.fr/libreboot/20150208/
>> bin/x200_8mb/x200_8mb_usqwerty_vesafb.rom [3]: Qualcomm Atheros
>> AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) $ lshw  -C network
>> *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: AR9285
>> Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
>> physical id: 0 bus info: address@hidden:02:00.0 logical name: wlan0
>> version: 01 serial: 00:26:5e:4b:bd:3f width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz
>> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
>> physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k
>> driverversion=3.13.0-39-lowlatency firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no
>> multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:17
>> memory:e1500000-e150ffff
>>
>> [... eth0 snipped ...]
>>
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