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I really really need help with this one. Please.

I have a laptop Prestigio Nobile 1570 with Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI wireless network card I'm strugling to make it work...

This is an output of lspci -v:

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06:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)

        Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1001

        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10

        Memory at b0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

And dmesg info:

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ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10

ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation

ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection

ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:

Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.

I belive the main problem here is the Radio Frequency Kill Switch !
I have acerhk module to "disable" this rf_kill with this command:

Code:

echo 1 > /proc/acpi/driver/acerhk/wirelessled

But I don't think it works. I get a 0 value in "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000:06:05.0/rf_kill" So that should mean that kill swithc is off... right ?!

This is an output of iwconfig eth1 before trying to turn the switch off:

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eth1      radio off  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"(none)"

          Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

          Bit Rate=0 kb/s  Tx-Power=off

          Retry limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

And this is when I execute "echo 1 > /proc/acpi/driver/acerhk/wirelessle":

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eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"(none)"

          Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

          Bit Rate=0 kb/s  Tx-Power=20 dBm

          Retry limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed beacon:0

The "radio off" turns into "unassociated" ! It should be "radio on" am I right ?!?

I can't enable my wireless device. ifup eth1 gives me "failed; no link present. Check cable?"

Is there a solution for this ? I don't know what to do anymore...