Re: iwl3945 not working properly.

Re: iwl3945 not working properly.

[Andrew Morton]

(cc linux-wireless)

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:54:25 +0100 Wael Nasreddine <mla@nasreddine.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 with and Intel 3945ABG card, the
> driver is not working properly.
> 
> When I turn on my PC it works fine, but If I ever bring the interface
> down, I no longer can associate it with any AP without rebooting, even
> the one I was using, I tried rmmod/modprobe iwl3945, didn't do
> anything,
> 
> iwconfig shows that the wlan0 has the radio turned off, and
> 
> $ cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill
> 1
> 
> Even If I echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill
> whenever I try to associate the interface with an AP it turns back to
> 1, I tried both iwconfig and NetworkManager, same problem.
> 
> There's a button on my laptop for Radio SoftKill (fn+F8) but it's not
> working, the soft kill is being enabled/disabled without my
> interference.
> 
> I tried it on kernel-2.6.24 and kernel-2.6.25-rc2 same result...
> 
> Any help is appreciated...
> 
> P.S: Please Cc to me, I am not subscribed to the mailing list.
> 
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> Wael Nasreddine
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