iwlwifi working anytime soon?

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:26 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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?

FYI, NM won't work very well with kill switches because there's as yet
no standard kernel interface for rfkill.  That's coming along nicely
though, it appears.

Dan