From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: So far I have this problem with my latop Acer TravelMate 6000. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Restart the linux box with only ethernet(eth0) network connection. 2. Restart again with only wireless(eth1-ipw2200-1.0.2) network connection. 3. Get "invalid MAC Address...ignoring" when machine startup 4. Check /var/log/message OR dmesg get: Mar 28 10:02:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection Mar 28 10:02:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: Mar 28 10:02:48 localhost kernel: Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. Actual Results: This file /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:04.0/rf_kill give me "2" instead of normal as"0" Additional info: Temporary solution: Boot with Win XP and press "enable wireless connection button" and reboot. Everything will go back to normal.
*** Bug 153057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
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