From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 21:31:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15ECF16A420 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from mail.blinkt.de (mail.blinkt.de [88.198.169.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B4E13C447 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schwabe@uni-paderborn.de) Received: from dslb-084-061-156-192.pools.arcor-ip.net ([84.61.156.192] helo=styx.local) by mail.blinkt.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JFFFk-000L4j-R1; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <478E6EA3.9010504@uni-paderborn.de> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:52:51 +0100 From: Arne Schwabe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080116144801.cbc5640d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:31:06 -0000 Bill Moran schrieb: > I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61. > > I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card. It's a Intel Pro > 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver. Rebuilding > the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a > wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get > a message that the radio transmitter is turned off. > > ? > > I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can > find. Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me > in to what I can do to turn the radio on. My google searches have > turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code. > > Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :) > > Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in the right position? Arne