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Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945 rfkill regression

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On Jan 26, 2008 9:00 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 9:24 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Jan 22, 2008 9:21 PM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: drago01 [mailto:drago01@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > >Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:12 PM
> > > >To: Winkler, Tomas
> > >
> > > >Cc: ipw3945-devel; Cahill, Ben M; Zhu, Yi; linux-wireless
> > > >Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945 rfkill regression
> > > >
> > > >On Jan 22, 2008 9:07 PM, Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> I believe it's delaying uCode load to mac_start - still need to be
> > > >> polished.
> > > >
> > > >ok, thx for the quick reply.
> > > >If you have any potential fixes I would be happy to test them ;)
> > >
> > > Can you get me the sequence it is happening? RF kill switch is off
> > > before you power up the laptop or after, during association or in
> > > unassociated state..etc
> > > Thanks
> >
> > I boot with rf kill off = device on
> > acciotate using NM
> > kill the card by pressing the rfkill (ie. setting it to on)
> > card is dead (like described in my first mail), until I relaod the module
> > the rfkill switch  does not have any effect at this time.
> >
>
> OK, I investigated a bit and it seems to be the "disable interrupt
> when device goes down" is the problem.
> In my case NetworkManager detected the rfkill and brought the device
> down, which caused the interrupt to be disabled. Now after pressing
> the rfkill again nothing happend. But if I bring the device back up
> the interrupt is enabled again and rfkill and the card is back to
> live.
> So in short disabling the interrupt in mac_stop breaks the hw rfkill
> while the interface is down.
>

Thanks for investigating this, still didn't have to time to dig into it.
Tomas
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