[Bug 193970] Re: iwl3945 | iwl4965: Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch

[Tim Richardson]

A summary of the thread for new readers:

If you are using Hardy 8.04 and have the kernel  backported modules
installed (linux-backports-modules-hardy), you will find a bug in the
iwl (intel wireless) drivers. It has nothing to do with network manager,
and if you don't use this module, you won't see the problem. The
backport modules brings newer versions of the Intel wireless drivers to
the 2.6.24 kernel of Hardy 8.04. This bug will surely be fixed. Apart
from not using the backports module, there is an easy workaround:

The workaround: after re-enabling the kill-switch, do this from a shell:

sudo rmmod iwl4965
sudo modprobe iwl4965


for interest:
On the Toshiba, the kill-switch also turns off Bluetooth.
Bluetooth is reactivated when the kill-switch is turned on again.

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iwl3945 | iwl4965: Wireless can't be activated after disabling kill switch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193970
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