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:
Code:
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:
Code:
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:
Code:
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":
Code:
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...
