* Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> [20090126 21:39]: > Wonder if any one has a suggestion for me. I've wiped vista off my > laptop, an Acer Aspire 5920. and installed Schlutenscheisser. I've got > couple of problems but I'll just mention the wifi for now. On boot > something odd is happening to the wifi. As soon as the firmware loads > a hardware kill switch is activated.
> $ dmesg | grep iwl [...] > [ 39.148650] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode > [ 39.273994] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > [ 46.197829] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > [ 50.178462] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > [ 54.187015] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > [ 235.037523] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > [ 237.703345] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > I have trawled the internet for help and have place a file called > iwl3945 in /etc/modprobe.d The file contains these two lines > alias wlan0 iwl3945 > options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1 > This was supposed to prevent the hardware switch from operating but > even if I unload and reload the module iwl3945 it gets HW killed > again. :-( First of all: are you *sure* that the hardware switch is on? :) Then check out /sys/class/net/$WLAN_DEVICE/device/rfkill/... (and play with it using the disable=1 option for the iwl driver) regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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