On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 18:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I don't think ipw2200 worked that way? I'm fairly sure I used to be > able to configure the interface whichever way the switch was > positioned? Yes, the iwlwifi driver changes the behaviour (vs. ipw2200) to load the firmware from pci_probe to network interface open (ifconfig up). It is expected to support 1) wireless driver buildin kernel (ipw2200 doesn't support it because network device is initialized before hard disk in boot up process: no firmware found); 2) saves more power when you load the module but don't use wireless. So when the RF kill switch is turned on, the firmware loading is failed. BTW, we also have patches to delay ipw2100/2200 firmware loading like this. Thanks, -yi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
