<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:07 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:<br> > > I just decided to try updating my Fedora 8 Test 1
<br> > > to the latest Rawhide and I'm seeing a few issues.<br> > ><br> > > The primry one is that the Inetl 3945 has stopped working.<br> > ><br> > > It seems as thought the RF kill switch is permanently on.
<br> > ><br> > > I've searched the web and there were 3 posted suggestions,<br> > > none of which worked for me...<br> > ><br> > > a) echo 0 > /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/rf_kill
<br> > ><br> > > b) echo 0 ><br> > > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl3945/module/drivers/pci\:iwl3945/0000\:/0\:00.0/rf_kill<br> > ><br> > > c) within the BIOS, disable the hot keys for RF/Bluetooth
<br> > ><br> > ><br> > > No matter what I've tried, knetworkmanager shows no wireless nodes,<br> > ><br> > > With Test 1, everything _was_ working.<br> > ><br>
> > Suggestions anyone?<br> ><br> > I'm on an Inspiron 9300 with a intel2915 chipset, so this may or may not<br> > help.<br> ><br> > There's been some malarky with Network manager (moving from
0.6.5 to<br> > 0.7.x) recently and while some of it has been resolved, issues still<br> > seem to be there for 3945 users (from reading issues on this list) and<br> > some other chipsets.<br> >
<br> > Also, I find that sometimes I need to go into the bios and reenable the<br> > wireless device and that simply hitting Fn>F2 doesn't toggle the<br> > settings.<br><br> Thanks for the update. hopefully it gets resolved soon.
<br><br> In my case, Fn-F2 doesn't do anything anymore in Rawhide except<br> complain about unknown keycodes, so even if it was off by default<br> now (despite what the /sys/class.../rf_kill option says), there
<br> is no way to turn it back on.<br><br>Out of interest, do you have one of these?<br><br>/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-dell-rfkill-switch.fdi</blockquote><div> </div></div><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
No, what I have is:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-dell-rfkill-switch-wlan.fdi</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-
dell-rfkill-bluetooth.fdi</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-ipw-rfkill-switch.fdi</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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