howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-04-21 Thread Jim Cromie
My rfkill switch is defective; I bumped it one day, and now I cannot turn it back on. The LED right next to the switch formerly lit up, now it doesnt. The switch (stuck in off position) disables all WIFI; not just the built-in one, but also pcmcia and usb wlan devices Ive plugged in. I googled,

Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-04-21 Thread Jim Cromie
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Vladimir Botka vbo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:09:19 -0600 Jim Cromie jim.cro...@gmail.com wrote: Im willing to disable the rfkill code thats shutting things down, but would appreciate advice on how to do so, or whether theres a simpler

Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Cromie
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Dan Williams d...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 18:49 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote: 1 - with only built-in wifi card, I get a blank list. 2 - once I plug in the pcmcia and usb cards, theyre both unblocked, but the builtin (ipw2200) is still missing

Re: howto ignore rfkill switch

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Cromie
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Marc Herbert marc.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Le 21/04/2010 23:09, Jim Cromie wrote : The switch disables all WIFI; not just the built-in one, but also pcmcia and usb wlan devices Ive plugged in. Do you know how Windows handles this? No - I wiped