wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

[Bill Moran]

In response to Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com>:

> Arne Schwabe wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Perfect response. Wpi emits this message when the hardware switch is 
> turned off. I'll update the message to be a little more informative and 
> more importantly I'll update the man page.

Nice :)

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Bill Moran
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