wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

[Bill Moran]

Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com> wrote:
>
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > <snip>
> >   
> >> I'm at a loss here. Though the driver is marked experimental, it's working 
> >> fine for me. I suppose you already tried to load the firmware yourself?
> >>
> >> # kldload firmware wpifw wlan_scan_sta
> >>
> >> The driver is not yet capable of loading wlan_scan_sta itself, so I suggest 
> >> to inlcude it if you want to scan for networks.
> >>     
> >
> > Just to follow up.  The driver is working fine for me now.
> >   
> Hi Bill,
>     Can you confirm that the above kldload allowed you to use the card? 
> The driver should automatically load wpifw, so if not I'll look in to 
> what the problem is.

It is a little weird.  Sometimes I'll boot up the system and the interface
will be there, other times it won't be.  What's even stranger is if it's
missing but I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" it will magically appear.

Any particular information you want me to gather?

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com