kill switch is permanently disabld on dell Inspiron 6400

[Fulko Hew]

>
>      > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:07 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
>      > > I just decided to try updating my Fedora 8 Test 1
>      > > to the latest Rawhide and I'm seeing a few issues.
>      > >
>      > > The primry one is that the Inetl 3945 has stopped working.
>      > >
>      > > It seems as thought the RF kill switch is permanently on.
>      > >
>      > > I've searched the web and there were 3 posted suggestions,
>      > > none of which worked for me...
>      > >
>      > > a) echo 0 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rf_kill
>      > >
>      > > b) echo 0 >
>      > >
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/module/drivers/pci\:iwl3945/0000\:/0\:00.0
> /rf_kill
>      > >
>      > > c) within the BIOS, disable the hot keys for RF/Bluetooth
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > No matter what I've tried, knetworkmanager shows no wireless
> nodes,
>      > >
>      > > With Test 1, everything _was_ working.
>      > >
>      > > Suggestions anyone?
>      >
>      > I'm on an Inspiron 9300 with a intel2915 chipset, so this may or
> may not
>      > help.
>      >
>      > There's been some malarky with Network manager (moving from 0.6.5to
>      > 0.7.x) recently and while some of it has been resolved, issues
> still
>      > seem to be there for 3945 users (from reading issues on this list)
> and
>      > some other chipsets.
>      >
>      > Also, I find that sometimes I need to go into the bios and reenable
> the
>      > wireless device and that simply hitting Fn>F2 doesn't toggle the
>      > settings.
>
>     Thanks for the update.  hopefully it gets resolved soon.
>
>     In my case, Fn-F2 doesn't do anything anymore in Rawhide except
>     complain about unknown keycodes, so even if it was off by default
>     now (despite what the /sys/class.../rf_kill option says), there
>     is no way to turn it back on.
>
> Out of interest, do you have one of these?
>
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-dell-rfkill-switch.fdi


No, what I have is:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-dell-rfkill-switch-wlan.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-dell-rfkill-bluetooth.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-ipw-rfkill-switch.fdi
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