On 12/22/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: > > | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > | > ................ > | > ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on > | > Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work > | > ................ > > > | It's refering to an switch on your _case_ of the notebook, which turns > | wireless on or off ... > > So it's hardware?
IIRC with the ipw2* line it could also be an option in your BIOS and some laptops have a *magic switch* that requires a special software package to toggle (sorry for being so vague, I don't remember the name of the package). -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
