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Thinkpads these days typically have a physical radio switch that enables/disables both bluetooth and wifi. It's generally along the front edge or the left side edge. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, R. Luoma <nobluspam5476-MTb9uo0rH9eJIAd+swBSYQ at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > I am still struggling with the T60 (using Ubuntu 9.04) > > By fiddling around with device file permissions, I finally got sound working, > by wifi stubbornly refuses to work. ?For dmesg, I get the following: > > [ ? 11.526091] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks > [ ? 11.526095] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation > [ ? 11.526211] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 > [ ? 11.526226] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ ? 11.526266] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG > [ ? 11.526457] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: irq 2296 for MSI/MSI-X > [ ? 11.580601] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels > [ ? 11.581503] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs' > [ ? 13.624090] iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: > [ ? 20.474760] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode > [ ? 20.525255] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > > Needless to say, the Fn wifi button has no effect> and the BIOS > claims that the wifi is up and running. > > Does anyone have useful suggestions on how to toggle this mysterious HW RF Kill switch? > > Thank, > -- > R. Luoma > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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