13 Feb
2006
13 Feb
'06
4:52 p.m.
Hi guys & girls,
problem: HP Laptop with IPW2200 WiFi card and special button to
switch the WiFi on or off, system is Ubuntu 5.10
The card itself is recognized (no suprise there), but the damn
thing is turned off, pressing the button won't turn it on either
(/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill stays at the same value).
Unfortunately, it's not possible to just echo 0 > .../rf_kill to
turn the thing on (permission denied even for root on that HP,
here on my box - where the button works - it was allowed but had
no effect).
iwconfig power seems to be only for managing the powersave-states,
not to turn the thing on or off.
Googling didn't really help so far, I checked the ipw2100.sf.net,
ipw2200.sf.net and rfswitch.sf.net pages.
Any ideas?
Greetings & TIA, Eric
13 Feb
13 Feb
5:34 p.m.
Eric,
Have you checked your BIOS settings? I had a similar issue with my Dell
Laptop and the problem turned out to be that the card was disabled in
the laptop's BIOS.
Mike
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Hi guys & girls,
problem: HP Laptop with IPW2200 WiFi card and special button to
switch the WiFi on or off, system is Ubuntu 5.10
The card itself is recognized (no suprise there), but the damn
thing is turned off, pressing the button won't turn it on either
(/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill stays at the same value).
Unfortunately, it's not possible to just echo 0 > .../rf_kill to
turn the thing on (permission denied even for root on that HP,
here on my box - where the button works - it was allowed but had
no effect).
iwconfig power seems to be only for managing the powersave-states,
not to turn the thing on or off.
Googling didn't really help so far, I checked the ipw2100.sf.net,
ipw2200.sf.net and rfswitch.sf.net pages.
Any ideas?
Greetings & TIA, Eric
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16 Feb
16 Feb
3:15 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Mike Pressel wrote:
Have you checked your BIOS settings? I had a similar
issue with my Dell
Laptop and the problem turned out to be that the card was disabled in
the laptop's BIOS.
In the end, it indeed turned out to be a misunderstanding of BIOS
settings by the user (I only relayed info ;-)):
apparently there's a setting that will disable WiFi as soon as the
FastEthernet interface is active, the user found out about it as
things didn't work in the Evil OS (tm) either (dual-boot).
Since he changed settings, the button does indeed work, and he
can connect to the internal WLAN network.
Thanks for all the input!
Eric
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