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T60 wifi: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch?



Thinkpads these days typically have a physical radio switch that
enables/disables both bluetooth and wifi.  It's generally along
the front edge or the left side edge.


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, R. Luoma <nobluspam5476-MTb9uo0rH9eJIAd+swBSYQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I am still struggling with the T60 (using Ubuntu 9.04)
>
> By fiddling around with device file permissions, I finally got sound working,
> by wifi stubbornly refuses to work. ?For dmesg, I get the following:
>
> [ ? 11.526091] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
> [ ? 11.526095] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
> [ ? 11.526211] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> [ ? 11.526226] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> [ ? 11.526266] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
> [ ? 11.526457] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: irq 2296 for MSI/MSI-X
> [ ? 11.580601] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
> [ ? 11.581503] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
> [ ? 13.624090] iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
> [ ? 20.474760] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
> [ ? 20.525255] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
>
> Needless to say, the Fn wifi button has no effect> and the BIOS
> claims that the wifi is up and running.
>
> Does anyone have useful suggestions on how to toggle this mysterious HW RF Kill switch?
>
> Thank,
> --
> R. Luoma
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