[gentoo-user] Re: iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed

[»Q«]

"Cristian Gary" <cristiangary@×××××.com> wrote:
 
> On 4/20/08, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a 4965AGN.  I'd been using the
> > iwlwifi package with a 2.6.23 kernel.  I just moved to
> > tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r4, so I'm now using the iwlwifi driver
> > that's included with the kernel.
> >
> > Now if I need to restart the wireless interface
> > (using /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart), it goes down fine but fails
> > to come back up.  I get this error:
> >
> >   *   Wireless radio has been killed for interface

> hi,  the fast " and not the pretty way"  to set on the Wireless radio
> interface ,    when you have this problem
> do this. "iwconfig wlan0 txpower on"  and then
> "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start"

Thanks.  That works.  :)

I wish I knew how to keep it from going off in the first place, but 
for now I'll just give an alias to
"/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stop && iwconfig wlan0 txpower on && /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start"


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