wireless settings affecting other OS on different partition

[queBurro]

hi,
I've got a weird wireless problem and I don't know why it is as it is...
I've got 3 OSs installed: vista, Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 on an FS Amilo 2727 laptop, everything is fine in 9.04 but the wireless doesn't switch on in 9.10 until I do a "sudo modprobe acerhk" and then that runs, so things work with some fiddling and that's ok, what's weird is that if I don't activate the wireless in 9.10 and then reboot back into 9.04 the wireless in that then doesn't work and the "Enable Wireless" option is greyed out I have to go to vista and activate the wireless so I can get the wireless working in 9.04

any ideas? you'd think each partition wouldn't affect the other ones but it obviously does

cheers

[giammy]

Hi,

The settings is stored in the BIOS: probably 9.10 driver is updated and can
enable wireless setting correctly the BIOS, and so do the windows driver.

bye
giammy

[waterhead]

It sounds as if the wireless is being left in a "state" by the other OS/drivers. This can be complicated by having and using an on/off switch for the wireless. You have to change the state of it before it will work.

To see the state the wireless card is in, this command may work.

 cat /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state

0 = Off
1 = On