[Grml] intel iwl3945

[Maurice McCarthy]

Hi all

Wonder if any one has a suggestion for me. I've wiped vista off my
laptop, an Acer Aspire 5920. and installed Schlutenscheisser. I've got
couple of problems but I'll just mention the wifi for now. On boot
something odd is happening to the wifi. As soon as the firmware loads
a hardware kill switch is activated.

$ dmesg | grep iwl

[   16.656573] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network
Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
[   16.656573] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
[   16.656573] iwl3945 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   16.656573] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
[   16.805680] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
[   16.825420] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[   34.238805] Modules linked in: loop vboxdrv fuse ipv6 uvcvideo
compat_ioctl32 videodev joydev v4l1_compat evdev video output arc4
serio_raw ecb iwl3945 firmware_class mac80211 cfg80211 battery button
ac snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm acer_wmi led_class
snd_seq_dummy wmi snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq i2c_i801 snd_timer snd_seq_device iTCO_wdt
pcspkr i2c_core snd soundcore intel_agp rtc_cmos iTCO_vendor_support
snd_page_alloc rtc_core rtc_lib usb_storage usbhid ff_memless libusual
firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t sg sdhci ohci1394 mmc_core
ricoh_mmc ieee1394 tg3 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore thermal processor fan
squashfs sqlzma unlzma
[   39.148650] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[   39.273994] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
[   46.197829] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
[   50.178462] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
[   54.187015] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
[  235.037523] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch
[  237.703345] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

I have trawled the internet for help and have place a file called
iwl3945 in /etc/modprobe.d The file contains these two lines

alias wlan0 iwl3945
options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

This was supposed to prevent the hardware switch from operating but
even if I unload and reload the module iwl3945 it gets HW killed
again. :-(

Any ideas, please?

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Thanks in advance
Moss