T60 wifi: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch?

[John Abreau]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:28:25PM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
[....]
>> 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?
>
> In addition to the hardware switch, you may not have the
> requested firmware around.
>
> Do you see a line like this?
>
> iwl3945 loaded firmware version blahblahblah
>


The firmware would affect the software switch, a.k.a the Fn wifi button.
It wouldn't have any effect on the wardware switch, which physically
disconnects the wifi and bluetooth antennas.



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