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tsalikis

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Registered: 2009-04-21

Posts: 3

LG S1: Radio has never worked...

..under any circumstances (with linux).

# lsmod | grep iwl
iwl3945                89516  0 
rfkill                  9392  2 iwl3945
mac80211              159260  1 iwl3945
led_class               3384  2 sdhci,iwl3945
lib80211                5208  1 iwl3945
cfg80211               36492  2 iwl3945,mac80211

# iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:91:11:43:D4  
          inet addr:192.168.2.160  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:91ff:fe11:43d4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:341404 (333.4 Kb)  TX bytes:97488 (95.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:16 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:E3:5B:06  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-13-02-E3-5B-06-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

# dmesg
iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100002, writing 0x100006)
iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
iwl3945 loaded firmware version 15.28.2.8
iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
iwl3945 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A disabled

It has been a long time i have been trying to do something about this "HW RF Kill switch". My laptop has no special radio on/off button. When i first bought this laptop i had successfully used the "Fn+F6" combo under Windows to turn the radio on and off, the LED worked and everything was fine. With Linux (various distros and more than a year now with Archlinux) this button combo doesn't work whatsoever...

Any ideas? One clue i have gotten is i could install Windows, turn the HW switch on with Fn+F6 but this doesn't sound the most decent way to do this, plus i am not sure that i will ever be able to turn off and on the radio under Linux.

Thanks in advance, and i hope with your aid i will overcome this *big* issue...

abijr

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 71

Re: LG S1: Radio has never worked...

What drivers have you tried to install?

Have you tried:

# pacman -S iwlwifi-3945-ucode

Did you check the wiki?

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tsalikis

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Registered: 2009-04-21

Posts: 3

Re: LG S1: Radio has never worked...

The firmware is there, as dmesg reveals

I have tried every trick in the book... Now what i will do is try with the latest kernel RC.

tsalikis

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Registered: 2009-04-21

Posts: 3

Re: LG S1: Radio has never worked...

with 2.6.30 still the same peoblems, i suspect some unsupported controller or some malconfigured bus, which doesnt let the on off button work...