Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:12:06 +1030 From: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> To: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" Message-ID: <478E7A2E.7050403@clearchain.com> In-Reply-To: <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de>
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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.
Cheers,
Benjamin
wpi maintainer
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