Re: Latest Fedora 7 NM can't disable wireless

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs CLEMSON EDU>]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:45 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > I updated to NetworkManager-0.6.5-6.fc7 last night.  Now, when I
> > right-click on the nm-applet icon, the Enable Wireless checkbox is
> > greyed out and I can't set or unset the check mark.
> > 
> > This was not the case with the previous version.
> 
> Is your wireless rfkilled?  NM will gray out the enable/disable wireless
> checkbox if it thinks that the hardware has killed the radio.  Can you
> do a dump of 'lshal' and grab the section for killswitch, if any?

My T41 doesn't have a physical killswitch, and there is no "killswitch"
string in lshal.  The relevant parts AFAICT are (MAC addresses
censored):

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'
  info.bus = 'pci'  (string)
  info.linux.driver = 'ipw2200'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2448'  (string)
  info.product = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'pci'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'  (string)
  info.vendor = 'Intel Corporation'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'pci'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0'
(strin
g)
  pci.device_class = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  pci.device_protocol = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  pci.device_subclass = 128  (0x80)  (int)
  pci.linux.sysfs_path =
'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:02.0'  (s
tring)
  pci.product = 'PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection'  (string)
  pci.product_id = 16928  (0x4220)  (int)
  pci.subsys_product_id = 10001  (0x2711)  (int)
  pci.subsys_vendor = 'Intel Corporation'  (string)
  pci.subsys_vendor_id = 32902  (0x8086)  (int)
  pci.vendor = 'Intel Corporation'  (string)
  pci.vendor_id = 32902  (0x8086)  (int)

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx'
  info.capabilities = {'net', 'net.80211'} (string list)
  info.category = 'net.80211'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'  (string)
  info.product = 'WLAN Interface'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx'
(string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'net'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/net/eth1'  (string)
  net.80211.mac_address = xxxxxxxxxx  (0xxxxxxxxx)  (uint64)
  net.address = '00:13:ce:85:d3:46'  (string)
  net.arp_proto_hw_id = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  net.interface = 'eth1'  (string)
  net.linux.ifindex = 7  (0x7)  (int)
  net.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'
(string
)
  net.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_4220'
(string)

> 
> Dan
> 
>