From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 21:56:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2684416A41B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC1213C4E3 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C814EBC3B; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:55:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:55:57 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Benjamin Close Message-Id: <20080116165557.92789ba3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <478E7A2E.7050403@clearchain.com> References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> <478E7A2E.7050403@clearchain.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arne Schwabe , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:56:00 -0000 In response to Benjamin Close : > 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 :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com