Ed Davies wrote: > > It has both, combined. Unfortunately it's a push on/push off type > button and you can't see if it's on or off. I just pushed it > and the light did, indeed, come on and I can now iwlist scan to > see my router and can ping it with the wired network unplugged. > > I'm not sure if I should feel really stupid for not trying this > before. I did try when I started playing with this about a fort- > night ago but in all the messing around it went out of my mind, > particularly as I wasn't sure if it was a real hardware switch > or something that got interpretted by Windows to do the equivalent > of ifconfig up/down or whatever. > > It's all not very obvious as you have to have done both an > ifconfig eth1 up and pressed the button to the right state > before you get a blue light.
Software can read the state of that switch, but not change it. That is why you have to turn it on. The light will be on if the switch is on, and the interface is up. Both steps must be completed. I'm glad it is working now. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
