Re: iwlagn rfkill and 2.6.31 on Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN

[Fabio Coatti <fabio.coatti@gmail.com>]

In data mercoledì 16 settembre 2009 18:30:19, reinette chatre ha scritto:

> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 07:57 -0700, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> > But the behaviour of wifi sybsystem is still weird, (maybe for some
> > faults on my side). Basically if the laptop starts with wifi enabled
> > (rfkill off) wpa_supplicant can establish a connection, that can be
> > killed by rfkill switch (both wifi and bluetooth seems to be killed). But
> > when I turn off rfkill switch wpa_supplicant is unable to connect again;
> > looking at syslog/dmesg I can see activity in bt stack, but no messages
> > regarding wlan0.
> 
> I think at this point you need to bring the interface back up. When you
> enable rfkill the interface is brought down, the opposite (bringing
> interface up) is not done automatically when you disable rfkill.
> 

Ok, I understand your point. In fact I can bring up the interface using 
"ip link set wlan0 up" 
but this leads me to another question: I fail to see how restart the interface 
automatically when rfkill switch is turned off.
The expected behaviour in this case should be, imho, that wpa_supplicant wakes 
up and restarts the connection.
IIRC netplug doesn't work with wireless connections and this leaves me 
wondering how I can have wireless la to wake up after turning off rfkill 
switch :)