On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:13 +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 4:03 PM, Christopher A. Williams > <fedoralists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since upgrading to kernel 2.6.23.14-115.fc8, my Intel iwl4965 > wireless > card refuses to connect. It seems to think my hardware kill > switch is > enabled, which is not true. The hardware radio switch is most > certainly > on. Output from dmesg is at the end of this message. > > Laptop is an HP/Compaq 8510w with 4GB RAM and running F8 > (64-bit). > > No problem here on a Dell D830 with iwl4965 wireless and the same > memory and OS configuration. > Interestingly enough, it now seems to be intermittent. I did get it to work once. Not sure why. > Here's the relevant output from dmesg: > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:10:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> > IRQ 17 > iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch > > Maybe there were some changes to the way the kill switch status is > determined? Possibly - I wouldn't be one with the ansawer here. > > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:10:00.0 disabled > irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > > Call Trace: > <IRQ> [<ffffffff8106aa87>] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x72 > [<ffffffff8106acd8>] note_interrupt+0x20f/0x253 > > No idea if this "hurts", but it looks like a problem with your > laptop/mainboard/BIOS. Just nosed around the HP site - looks like a BIOS update was issued last December. I'll give that a try as well and see where that winds up. -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
