From: Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:25:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558b73fb0512220825g581460b5t2c9522f13d3ad27d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871x053y64.fsf@bornier.net>
On 12/22/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net> wrote:
> Le 22 décembre à 17:02:52 Christian Heim <phreak@gentoo.org> écrit notamment:
>
> | On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
> | > ................
> | > ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is on
> | > Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work
> | > ................
> >
> | It's refering to an switch on your _case_ of the notebook, which turns
> | wireless on or off ...
>
> So it's hardware?
IIRC with the ipw2* line it could also be an option in your BIOS and
some laptops have a *magic switch* that requires a special software
package to toggle (sorry for being so vague, I don't remember the name
of the package).
-Mike
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 15:52 [gentoo-user] Radio Frequency Kill Switch Jean Magnan de Bornier
2005-12-22 16:02 ` Christian Heim
2005-12-22 16:16 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2005-12-22 16:25 ` Michael Crute [this message]
2005-12-22 16:34 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
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