RE: iwl3945 not working properly.

From: Chatre, Reinette
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 13:01:19 EST


On Monday, February 18, 2008 7:47 AM, John W. Linville wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:25AM +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 with and Intel 3945ABG card,
>> the driver is not working properly.
>>
>> When I turn on my PC it works fine, but If I ever bring the interface
>> down, I no longer can associate it with any AP without rebooting,
>> even the one I was using, I tried rmmod/modprobe iwl3945, didn't do
>> anything,
>>
>> iwconfig shows that the wlan0 has the radio turned off, and
>>
>> $ cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill 1
>>
>> Even If I echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/0000:04:00.0/rf_kill
>> whenever I try to associate the interface with an AP it turns back to
>> 1, I tried both iwconfig and NetworkManager, same problem.
>>
>> There's a button on my laptop for Radio SoftKill (fn+F8) but it's not
>> working, the soft kill is being enabled/disabled without my
>> interference.
>>
>> I tried it on kernel-2.6.24 and kernel-2.6.25-rc2 same result...
>>
>> Any help is appreciated...
>>
>> P.S: Please Cc to me, I am not subscribed to the mailing list.
>
> This sounds similar to the bug here:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432264
>
> The OP in that bug reports that the problem continues even after
> reverting to older kernels that worked previously.
>
> Hopefully part of the Intel crew will have some clue as to what is
> happending here?

Wael,

Could you please help us debug this issue? Unfortunately none of the
bugs reported about this issue
(http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1454 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432264) have any debugging
output. Please reopen bug
http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1454 and add debugging
(loading module with debug=0x43fff) to your report to help us find out
what happens on your system when the driver loads as well as when you
change the rfkill settings.

Thank you very much

Reinette
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