Re: kill switch problem?

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:35 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
>> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.3.svn2995.fc8.x86_64
>> 
>> NM isn't activating wlan0, which is iwl4965:
>> Oct 24 09:43:32 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
>> 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17kds
>> Oct 24 09:43:32 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel
>> Corporation
>> Oct 24 09:43:32 nbecker1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] ->
>> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
>> Oct 24 09:43:32 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi
>> Link 4965AGN
>> 
>> I see:
>> Oct 24 09:44:06 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <WARN>
>> killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting killswitch power:
>> hal-ipw-killswitch-linux returned 255.
>> 
>> Wonder if this is the problem?
> 
> When you see this, can you run 'iwlist wlan0 scan' and see if it returns
> "resource not available" or something like that?  If so, the driver is
> horked and you need to rmmod/modprobe it :(
> 
> Also, what's the output of 'ls /sys/class/net/' after boot?
> 
> Dan

I tried rmmod/modprobe.  That seems to fix it.  I also see that there is a
new kernel message, that wasn't present when the module was first loaded:

Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link
4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.1.17kds
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Intel
Corporation
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI
16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link
4965AGN
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 kernel: iwl4965: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13
802.11a channels <<<< This message is new
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is
fully-supported using driver 'iwl4965'.
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exporting device
as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Device/4
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless
(802.11) device 'wlan0'.
Oct 24 19:45:24 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device wlan0
...