wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

Benjamin Close Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com
Wed Jan 16 16:33:08 PST 2008


Frank Staals wrote:
> Benjamin Close wrote:
>> Arne Schwabe wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Benjamin
>>    wpi maintainer
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> Hmm I was planning on starting a new thread on it but my problem is 
> somewhat related: My laptop (Dell Latitude D630 running a 7.0 build 
> from a week ago ) completely locks up when trying to configure my wlan 
> card (which is using wpi ) when the hardware switch is turned off. 
> I'll do some tests if I can find out at what specific point it goes 
> wrong. Any other people having trouble with this ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
Can you please enable debug on wpi and send me your logs.

sysctl debug.wpi=-2
then: ifconfig wpi0 up

Cheers,
  Benjamin


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