Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:52:51 +0100 From: Arne Schwabe <schwabe@uni-paderborn.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" Message-ID: <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> In-Reply-To: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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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? Arne
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