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RE: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945 rfkill regression

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On Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:42 PM, drago01  wrote:

> Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> 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. 
>> 
>> 
> ping?

We are working on this.

Reinette
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