Re: Latest Fedora 7 NM can't disable wireless

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

On 6/26/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 20:51 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>
>
> On 6/26/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 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?
>
> its the same here it seems if the rfkill is not supported in hal  nm
> greyes this option out.

Eek, that's not right.

ok, so it must be some other bug than (its always greyed out here; using ipw3945). If you have any idea how to debug this or if you need any logs fell free to ask ;)