Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"
Bill Moran <[email protected]>
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In response to Benjamin Close <[email protected]>: > 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. Nice :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"