On 16 October 2010 18:37, Dmitrij Czarkoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred Crowson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Misc@ >> >> I have a Lenovo S10-3 ideapad notebook, but I am unable to configure >> the athn0 interface, if I try a scan, or try to configure the >> interface I get the following messages: >> >> Oct 16 15:49:51 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch >> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 >> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch >> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 >> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch >> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 >> >> There is a switch on the side of the notebook - but it has no effect >> the same is true of the Fn+F5 key sequence. >> >> The wifi led is lit initially when the notebook is booted, but when it >> gets to approximately the acpibat0 line on boot the led goes off and >> stays off. > > Do You have any output on switching the hardware switch?
The hardware switch doesn't result in any output... > It seems You have softkill. Try booting any linux livecd and play > around rfkill utility. I'll give that a go Thanks Fred
