iwlwifi working anytime soon?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Apr 11 21:26:41 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 23:07 +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 09:58 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> >> Would anyone in the know care to speculate if iwlwifi is going to work
> >> anytime soon? It's been in the kernel for a month or so (at least it
> >> feels like a month) and has never worked for me and many others. From
> >> the kernel changelogs, it doesn't seem like much is happening with it. 
> > 
> > Can people that have been having problems with iwlwifi try with today's
> > rawhide kernel (2.6.20-1.3056.fc7)?  I've had it work for me now on 4
> > laptops connecting to both an unencrypted and an encrypted (WEP) access
> > point where previously that was nowhere near the case ;)
> 
> Not sure if this is a driver problem, or something else.
> I'm still having problems with the hardware kill switch:
> 
> iwlwifi: Intel(R) Wireless Link driver for Linux, 0.0.11k
> iwlwifi: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> iwlwifi: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> iwlwifi: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
> iwlwifi: MAC is in deep sleep!
> iwlwifi: MAC is in deep sleep!
> iwlwifi: MAC is in deep sleep!
> 
> No matter how i turn the actual switch the same messages are logged when 
> I modprobe iwlwifi.

What hardware is this with?  Does it work if you start out with the kill
switch in the enabled position?

Jeremy




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