[Grml] intel iwl3945

[Michael Prokop]

* Maurice McCarthy <moss at mythic-beasts.com> [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-
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