Bug 455509

Summary:	iwl3945 cannot be renabled from linux after power failure
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stephen Rowles <rather.b.sailing>
Component:	iwl3945-firmware	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	dcbw, wtogami
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Description Stephen Rowles 2008-07-15 19:44:46 UTC

Description of problem:

Wireless hardware on Acer 5920 laptop (iwl3945) gets switched off when the
wireless key is pressed, or the laptop dies due to a flat battery. When this
happens it is impossible to re-enable the wireless from Linux. My only choice is
to reboot to Vista, which I fortunately decided to dual boot rather than go pure
linux.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 8
2.6.25.9-40.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Jun 27 16:25:53 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
iwl3945-firmware-2.14.1.5-2


How reproducible:

1) start linux
2) connect to wireless network
3) allow laptop to power fail
4) restart laptop, notice that wireless button does not light up
5) following messages appear in dmesg:

iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux,
1.2.26kds
iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 11:00:20 UTC

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Comment 2 Stephen Rowles 2008-11-28 11:29:20 UTC

This bug is no longer applicable to Fedora 10. Using fedora 10 live CD wireless can be switch back on (by turning of wireless in network manager, then re-enabling). 

Still not ideal, it should be switch on during boot if the network manager has it as enabled. I will raise a new bug to cover that on Fedora 10.