wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

[Arne Schwabe]

Bill Moran schrieb:
> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61.
>
> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card.  It's a Intel Pro
> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver.  Rebuilding
> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a
> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get
> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off.
>
> ?
>
> I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can
> find.  Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me
> in to what I can do to turn the radio on.  My google searches have
> turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code.
>
> Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :)
>
>   
Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in the 
right position?

Arne