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From: Cristian Gary <cristiangary@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:02:35
Message-Id: 95ef8cd0804201302s59ffe8c1pf925d4e61636a9bb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed by "»Q«"
1 hi, the fast " and not the pretty way" to set on the Wireless radio
2 interface , when you have this problem
3 do this. "iwconfig wlan0 txpower on" and then "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0
4 start"
5
6
7
8 On 4/20/08, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
9 >
10 > I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a 4965AGN. I'd been using the iwlwifi
11 > package with a 2.6.23 kernel. I just moved to
12 > tuxonice-sources-2.6.24-r4, so I'm now using the iwlwifi driver that's
13 > included with the kernel.
14 >
15 > Now if I need to restart the wireless interface
16 > (using /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart), it goes down fine but fails to
17 > come back up. I get this error:
18 >
19 > * Wireless radio has been killed for interface
20 >
21 > I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting. FWIW, here's how the
22 > kernel is configured:
23 >
24 > ~ $ zgrep -i mac80211 /proc/config.gz
25 > CONFIG_MAC80211=m
26 > CONFIG_MAC80211_RCSIMPLE=y
27 > # CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG is not set
28 >
29 > zgrep -i iwl /proc/config.gz
30 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI=y
31 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=y
32 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_SENSITIVITY=y
33 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y
34 > CONFIG_IWLWIFI_QOS=y
35 > CONFIG_IWL4965=m
36 > # CONFIG_IWL3945 is not set
37 >
38 >
39 > --
40 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
41 >
42 >
43
44
45 --
46 Cristian Gonzalo Gary Bufadel

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Re: [gentoo-user] iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: iwlwifi - problem with wireless radio being killed "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>