iwl3945 - kill switch issue - how do I contribute

[dragoran]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 9/2/07, dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi, I have HP nx7300 laptop with Intel 3945ABG wifi card.
>>>
>>> It doesn't work under rawhide and I get a message after loading
>>> iwl3945 module that my RF Kill Switch is ON even if it is OFF !
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> maybe you are just confused here
>> killswitch ON means card OFF
>> killswitch OFF means card ON
>>     
>
> My killswitch is OFF this means that card should be ON, but it shows
> as the switch is ON and therefore card if OFF no matter what I do.
>
>   
ok
>> btw works for me (iwl3945; kernel-2.6.22.4-65.fc7; hw killswitch)
>>
>> does your card have an software or hardware killswitch?
>>     
>
> I have hardware killswitch as you can see:
>
> # cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/module/drivers/pci\:iwl3945/0000\:10\:00.0/rf_kill
> 2
>
> AFAIK "2" stands for hardware switch - which I disable but kernel
> doesn't register it and is says that it is still enabled. In previous
> versions of fedora it worked as it shouls. When I enable my wifi
> (disable kill swithc) it works... and vice versa - not it just doesn't
> work.
>
>   
previous fedora versions did not ship a driver for this card at all.. do 
you mean the ipw3945 driver?
>> also what do you mean by "device list" does networkmanager not detect it?
>>     
>
> how can I check for this?
>
> see for your self:
>
> # iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
>   
ok
>> I submitted patches for upstream hal to support iwl3945/4965 and ipw*
>> killswitch so that nm works with them (patches are in hal 0.5.10-rcX
>> which is in rawhide).
>>     
>>> Where can I contribute my time and feedback? It fedora-devel an
>>> appropriate mailing list or should I go upstream (where is iwl3945
>>> project page?!?) ?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> http://intellinuxwireless.org/
>> If you want to bring it upstream post to ipw3945-devel
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipw3945-devel
>>     
>
> is this mailing list apropriate for iwl3945 or only for ipw3945?
>
>   
yes it is.