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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: can't bring up wlan0
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:51:52 +0800 Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > t61p:/home/akpm# ifconfig wlan0 up
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
> 
> Did dmesg tell something about missing firmware?
> 

Nope, but things got a lot better when I turned the wireless kill switch
back on. oops ;)

I don't think ipw2200 worked that way?  I'm fairly sure I used to be able
to configure the interface whichever way the switch was positioned?