From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 20:07:00 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 C3D3A16A46B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:07:00 +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 9511413C43E for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:07:00 +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 E37A8EBC3B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:48:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:48:01 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.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 Subject: 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 20:07:00 -0000 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. :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com