Booting with wireless turned off (killswitch) and trying to activate it afterwards (switching the killswitch) does not work. However upon unload of iwl4965 it gets autoloaded again and state returns to work as expected. May 18 13:41:41 machine NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch May 18 13:41:41 machine NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 # iwlist scan wlan0 wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down # rmmod iwl4965 May 18 13:42:07 machine NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): now unmanaged May 18 13:42:07 machine NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 1 May 18 13:42:07 machine kernel: iwl4965: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver for Linux, 1.2.26kds May 18 13:42:07 machine kernel: iwl4965: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation May 18 13:42:07 machine kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 May 18 13:42:07 machine kernel: iwl4965: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: iwl4965: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: input: 4965AGN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:0c:00.0/input/input12 May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy1:radio May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy1:assoc May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy1:RX May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy1:TX May 18 13:42:08 machine kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready # iwlist scan wlan0 wlan0 Scan completed : [... shows found cells ...]
PS: test run with kernel 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64
Can you recreate this issue with the test kernels here? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=49743
Unfortunately still no luck. Exact same symptoms. /var/log/messages again says that wireless is now enabled through the radio killswitch, however "iwlist scan" claims the network as down and therefor does not scan for anything.
Did you execute "ifconfig wlan0 up"? If the interface is down, no scanning will be performed.
"ifconfig wlan0 up" gives me: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Connection timed out Not sure if bringing it up with ifconfig was needed before. Thought with Fedora 8 I just enabled wireless and was ready to go ... hmm ...
*** Bug 448618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The iwlwifi driver continues to get a lot of changes...try something more recent? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=52276 This has seen recent discussion upstream, and the iwl4965 driver should get an interrupt when the switch is changed.
Think I tested it when you updated the bug and it didn't work at that time. (However I can't make sure anymore ...) Meanwhile tested on fully updated system running 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 and it works fine now. Switching the rfkill-switch the interface comes up fine, network manager notices and configures the device. Works now, please declare fixed.