Re: [PLUG] Killswitch and iwl4965

["Brian Vagnoni" <bvagnoni@v-system.net>]

Check your BIOS switch and stick a weiney in the warp drive and it should start working again.


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----- Original Message -----
From: Shameel Arafin
[mailto:algebraist@gmail.com]
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group
Discussion List [mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org]
Sent: Fri, 20 Jun
2008 11:22:39 -0400
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Killswitch and iwl4965


> Sasha, I have an Asus F9sg, not a Thinkpad -- and it doesn't have a
> dedicated killswitch, just the Fn-F2 combo.
> 
> I'm running Hardy 32-bit, btw.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> S/
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Sasha R <sashar@sas.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > If your laptop has a set dedicated kill switch, in the front by the
> screen
> > latches on Thinkpads, it will work just fine for disabling and
> re-enabling,
> > at least its done so for my friends and I on both an X61 and X61s on
> Fiesty,
> > Gutsy and now Hardy both 32 and 64. Ive never tried the fn f5
> keycombo for
> > turning it off.
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Shameel Arafin
> <algebraist@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All.
> >>
> >> There's a linux bug related to the Intel wifi driver iwl4965 (for
> the
> >> Intel Pro 4965 AGN card). Basically, if you do a Fn-F2 (disable
> wireless
> >> through key combo), you can't turn it back on. This is because it
> sets the
> >> rf_kill file to 2, and it needs to be 0.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know how to reset it to 0? I've googled around, and
> even
> >> tried Ubuntu's IRC channel, but nobody seems to know. The
> workaround is to
> >> boot Windows, get wifi enabled, then boot Ubuntu... But that's so
> lame.
> >> (Also, I don't want to install Windows on my box).
> >>
> >> BTW, if you try echo 0 > rf_kill, it doesn't work. vim rf_kill and
> setting
> >> it to 0 doesn't work either, there's some FSync error.
> >>
> >> Thanks guys.
> >>
> >> S/
> >> --
> >> Shameel Arafin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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