Re: [gentoo-user] s2ram - on resume : iwl3945 Kill Switch On

[Florian Philipp]

On Sat, 24 May 2008 12:47:35 -0300
"Claudinei Matos" <claudineimatos@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hy guys,
>
> I'm giving suspend a try on my Acer Aspire and everything is working
> fine in both s2disk and s2ram,
> except from my wireless card Intel 3945ABG which refuse to work when
> system is resumed.
>
> After resuming my system I get those lines on dmesg:
>
> iwl3945: Error sending REPLY_RXON: time out after 500ms.
> iwl3945: Error setting new configuration (-110).
> iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
> iwl3945: MAC is in deep sleep!
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:05:00.0 disabled
> iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver
> for Linux, 1.1.17kds
> iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64
> iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
> Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
>
> And even if I do try to remove module and reinsert it, doesn't helps.
> My laptop has a button for enable/disable wireless network, but it
> just seen to works with the pre-installed windows vista which I
> already wiped out.
>
> I've already tried to use Fn + F2,a lot of combinations which all
> function keys, Wifi / Bluetooth keys, etc
> but nothing seems to re-enable wireless card and not even give a new
> dmesg line.
> Also tried to install net-wireless/rfswitch and net-wireless/fsam7400
> as both are supposed to
> help with these software buttons problem but they both refused to
> compile against my 64 bits kernel.
>
> I don't have any other idea about how to solve this problem, so any
> advice will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Claudinei Matos

Do you have the rfswitch subsystem in the kernel activated?
You'll find this under "Networking".