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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting."
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:45:28 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162169128.20485.21.camel@rattus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4544D294.5020500@fire-eyes.org>

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:11 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
> 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:

> I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch.
> This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor.
> 

Using the ipw220 (sony vaio), it generates a message
in /var/log/messages and dmesg saying the killwitch must be off for
wireless to work.  If the killswitch is off (wireless working), there is
no message in either.


This is with the in-kernel drivers.

BillK

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 13:38 [gentoo-user] ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting." fire-eyes
2006-10-26 15:44 ` Ovidiu Bivolaru
2006-10-26 16:31   ` fire-eyes
2006-10-26 16:58     ` Ovidiu Bivolaru
2006-10-26 19:00       ` fire-eyes
2006-10-29 15:26 ` [gentoo-user] " 7v5w7go9ub0o
2006-10-29 16:11   ` fire-eyes
2006-10-30  0:45     ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2006-10-30  0:59       ` fire-eyes
2006-10-30  2:19         ` William Kenworthy

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