On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, George Fong <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > > Dang :-) This was the fix. > >> Try editing drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c, and replacing >> RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_ON and >> RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_OFF. Looks like rfkill is >> not part of the compat package, and no work has been done to match >> compat-wireless to older RFKILLs. > > Thank you for such prompt responses. Although I did this for the b43 driver, I > ended up progressively having to do the same fix for the drivers for a couple > more, ie iwlwifi and rxt200 > > I am not concerned about the rxt200 but the driver I was interested in was the > iwl4965, so I am not sure that by changing the settings on iwl-rfkill.c I > have affected the driver I am using .... > > > Having said that... the email is brought to you courtesy of the iwl9645 wifi > device .. which has got to be a Good Thing ;-) > > Agree about the proper way of doing things - should really install a newer > kernel, but I am strapped into an nVidia graphics card on my laptop and the > livna drivers keep pace well but I think I risk breaking these at the moment > with the newer kernel. > > Thank you all for your prompt responses and asistance... on a weekend no > less :-) I'll monitor progress and contribute whatever little I can as I get > this new laptop settled. I've fixed this in compat-wireless, it should now compile fine for kernels <= 2.6.26. Luis -- 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
