That is a different problem. It happens when the wireless button that enables/disables the radio has not been pushed, or if it is an ACPI-only button or if it's a software switch that needs some vendor-specific driver to actually enable the radio.
Damien > i get another type of timeout in my ThinkPad T61, the wireless doesn't > work: > > wpi0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG" rev 0x02: irq 11, > MoW2, address 00:19:d2:97:24:61 > > ifconfig wpi0 up > > wpi0: timeout waiting for thermal sensors calibration > > (i'm using the f/w package 2.14.4 as proposed by the manpage in -current) > > reyk
