[Dell Inspiron 7577] Wireless key does not work

Bug #1774102 reported by Po-Hsu Lin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
linux (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Bionic
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

CID: 201706-25581 Dell Inspiron 7577

Steps:
  1. Install Bionic + update with LiveUSB
  2. Boot to the desktop
  3. Press the Wireless key (Fn+ PrtScr) to kill wireless connection

Result:
  The Wireless key is not working, from the dmesg it complains:

[ 119.854458] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0010 and code 0xe008 pressed

$ sudo showkey -k
kb mode was ?UNKNOWN?
[ if you are trying this under X, it might not work
since the X server is also reading /dev/console ]

press any key (program terminates 10s after last keypress)...
keycode 240 press
keycode 247 press
keycode 247 release

Nothing from showkey -s

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: linux-image-4.15.0-22-generic 4.15.0-22.24
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.15.0-22.24-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 30 12:04:08 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: linux-signed
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote :
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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote :

Tested with 4.17rc7, issue still exist.

tags: added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
affects: linux-signed (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Bionic):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: kernel-da-key
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Kai-Heng Feng (kaihengfeng) wrote :

Should be fixed by systemd in -proposed pocket. LP: #1762385

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