Hi Costas, cost...@students.cs.unipi.gr wrote: > Quoting Bart Samwel <b...@samwel.tk>: > >> Thanks for reporting and contributing. Apparently we cannot tell the >> driver to use a certain power level when the hardware is disabled... >> This is a shame, because the power level will be incorrect when the >> device is re-enabled -- laptop mode tools doesn't re-apply settings when >> interfaces are enabled or disabled. >> >> I wonder, does this problem happen only when the hardware kill switch is >> used? Or does this already go wrong if you just do an ifdown on your >> device (as indicated by /sys/class/net/$DEVICE/operstate)? I wonder if >> there are other things that can't be used if the device's radio is >> killed. Might be worth a submitting a bug report to the iwl guys... >> >> Cheers, >> Bart >> > > Hello again Bart, > > When I submitted the bug, the wireless was killed by the hardware rf switch on > boot. > If it is killed by the switch, > cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/enable gives "0" > cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/operstate gives "down" > > Now, if i turn the rf switch to "on" and keep the interface down: > cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/enable gives "0" > cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/operstate gives "down" > > During ifconfig ups/ifconfig downs /sys/../operstate remains "down", > /sys/../enable changes according to up/down. > As it seems, for operstate to work i have to be connected to an ap. > ifconfig wlan0 up just doesn't change it. > > In my /etc/network/interfaces i have no section for wlan0. > > The /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/enable maybe better for laptop-mode, because > many people don't have an rf switch or are not connected to ap at boot.
I've reported this problem upstream because I really don't think this should be my problem to solve: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1893 If they don't respond positively I'll have to reconsider, but for now I'll wait to see what they say! Cheers, Bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
