Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

> > 
> Now I have really fouled UP:
> I have a dell Latitude D810
> I installed the modprobe dcdbas
> I installed libsmbios  using the  wget above.
>  /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version produces no meaningfull result. 
> /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl  does not exist.
> 
> I have noting in BIOS that calls itself a killswitch but there is an
> option to turn wireless on and off using Fn-F2. I assume that is the
> software killswitch.
> 
> I still get the killswitch related messages in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Now I made a big mistake . I decided to re-install libsmbios . So I
> removed it and tried the wget method again to reinstall it. That did not
> work. I got a message this was already done and it will not be done
> again.
> 
> So I haven't installed libsmbios and the errors are still there. What
> worries me is that somewhere along the line I got a message that
> libsmbios is needed by the haldaemon.
> 
> Anny help out there?
Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch
messages in slightly different form:

--Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7
Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: <info>  Error getting killswitch
power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported -
dellWirelessCtl returned 4
Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times

So now what?
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Don't panic.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam sbcglobal net